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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe〔Title as given in the official leaflet: ''Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Information Centre'' by ''Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien''.〕 ((ドイツ語:Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas)), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: ''Holocaust-Mahnmal''), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are long, wide and vary in height from . They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew.〔Willard Spiegelman (July 16, 2011), (The Facelessness of Mass Destruction ) ''Wall Street Journal''.〕〔Tom L. Freudenheim (June 15, 2005), (Monument to Ambiguity ) ''Wall Street Journal''.〕 An attached underground "Place of Information" ((ドイツ語:Ort der Information)) holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem. Building began on April 1, 2003, and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million. ==Interpretations== According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. However, observers have noted the memorial's resemblance to a cemetery.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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