Today we spent our time discussing the ideas of the conference from yesterday and experiencing (and discussing) the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe. This is a very powerful place in the most central part of Berlin, showing, I think, that Berliners are not hiding the difficult parts of their past but trying to remember every day. We also saw what we decided was a very badly-done memorial for persecuted homosexuals during the Nazi regime.
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| Frau Chambers offers us the background and context of the site. We are all good listeners. |
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Herr Lee in the museal space below the field of stones. The shapes of the stones above (on which we are sitting) carries through to this area. Here they hang like stalactites and carry the fates of various Jewish families during the Nazi period. |
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