Paul Nesselroade

Holocaust Studies Tour – Day 3 (Group 1)

The Jewish Museum of Berlin

Today was primarily taken up with a visit to the Jewish Museum of Berlin. In the installation, the visitor in confronted with a fantastic amount of factual information spread across three floors of displays, and it is all wrapped and presented within a structure bursting with symbolic meaning – from the interior design of the hallways and “voids,” to even the outside of the building, which looks scarred and torn. Here are some of the shots taken by those of us on the tour:

The museum in the background, memory garden in the foreground
A scarred and torn structure
Two of the three axes of the National Socialist period (Axes of Exile, Holocaust, Continuity)
On a guided tour
A display marking all of the laws passed against Jewish life in Nazi Germany
The Holocaust Tower (one of the “voids” in the building)
A map showing the number of Jews in a given country at the beginning of Nazi occupation (white) and the number killed by the Nazi’s (black)
A creative shot of the Memory Garden in the museum
“Fallen Leaves” scatter the floor of another “void” in the building

The next day we will go to Sachsenhausen, one of the most important camps in the Nazi concentration camp system.

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