Vandaag wordt in Berlijn een groot monument (19.000m2) door de Joodse slachtoffers van het nazi-regiem onthuld. Hieronder een maquette:

Een groot overzicht op internet van allerlei monumenten van de holocoast kun je vinden als je de volgende link volgt: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm

De ontwerper van het Berlijnse monument is Peter Eisenman. Een eerste beschrijving van zijn motieven:

Eisenman has been grouped with the proponents of a postmodernist sensibility, and symptomatic of this literary movement, his designs and buildings have been considered as texts. As postmodernist strategies, or the strategies of deconstruction, destructuralism, or poststructuralism, promote the decay or fragmentation of existing symbolism and structure but promise no ultimate replacement, neither does Eisenman offer us a new absolute. Rather, he suggests a psychological void which provokes individual and cultural anxiety and dislocation. By inducing destabilization and rupture in the very structures so long associated with comfort and shelter, such as the single family home, Eisenman has raised the postmodernist stakes by creating an architecture that some suggest borders on nihilism. Yet classifying Eisenman’s oeuvre, which is by no means complete, is to miss the essential thrust of his process. His designs, like society itself, seem to be in a state of constant emergence or movement. Based on an predilection towards a polemical flow of opposition, interaction, and redefinition, Eisenman’s design constitutes a formal or structural examination that by definition is constitutionally unable to achieve closure.

Er is een stichting die de informatievoorziening rond dit monument verzorgd en ondermeer de volgende internet site beheert: http://www.holocaust-mahnmal.de/en?PHPSESSID=1739b3f88697b775148ccff150c5ee2e