Bebelplatz, in memory of the burning of books
In the vast square, the Bebelplatz on overlooked by the neoclassical buildings of the State Opera, the cathedral of St. Hedwig, the Alte Bibliotek, the Humboldt University and other prestigious institutions in 1933, just months after taking power, was the symbol of the rite destruction of ancient Jewish culture contaminated by the presence: the burning of books. The site is now indicated by a discreet monument: a crystal plate under which you open an underground library, intangible, eternal, rooted in the earth. Sometimes it starts with the burning of the books and then, it can happen and it happened, we continue with the humans who write them or read them.
Bebelplatz
Despite the presence of students in most other religions, the building maintains a symbolic reference to the comuninità and the history of Jews in Berlin. Of note, in this context, the 'exceptionally sturdy railing that protects him and the cameras that monitor the perimeter.
in the former Jewish quarter of Berlin (where it is today the synagogue not destroyed by the Nazis because embedded in the surrounding buildings and therefore impossible to fire without the risk of a fire to spread uncontrolled), almost hidden, fixtures in the pavement, can be found here and there blocks of bronze with the names and information essential to those who were deported and killed in concentration camps.
For example in the picture below you see the blocks that remind members of the family Kozower. Philip, born in 1894, Gisela, born in 1901, Alice Rita and Eva, born in 1934 and 1932. And Aron Uri, born in 1942. All were killed at Auschwitz in 1943.
Another witness on the pavement. In this way, at least the memory of the disappeared and displaced persons is re-returned to be part of the Jewish quarter permanently.
http://www.stiftung-denkmal.de/
and very interesting, even if the films are in German:
http://www.raum-der-namen.de/
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