25T46 It’s a memorial, not a playground

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E45, B40.

In Berlin, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe is located between Brandenburger Tor and Potsdamer Platz. Completed in 2005 with a design by architect Peter Eisenman, the memorial site is in the former “death strip” and “no-man’s land” of the Berlin Wall, spread across 20-thousand square metres (about 5 acres) with over 2700 concrete stelae of varying heights, on ground that isn’t flat and rolls under your feet across the site.

An early summer morning, particularly on a Sunday, is good to have the entire site on my own. I don’t have to deal with questionables who treat the site as a personal playground. The millions who were targeted and killed deserve better memories, and frankly, a better choice of people.

Not only are the blocks set into the ground with different heights, the ground underneath rolls up and down, for a slow growing sense of unease. Even on a bright summer morning.
2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the memorial site.
I can’t help myself, but I’ll slip and spare a thought or two about “monoliths”.
The “hard” morning shadows seem to better illuminate any cracks in the concrete.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 22 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

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