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The memorial of holocausto is between the Postdamer Platz and the door of Brandenburg; one is an enormous grid of pillars of gray cement of variable heights. Peter Eisenman was designed by the New York architect; it is a monument dedicated to the genocide of Jews in Europe. The memorial one forms a true labyrinth on a uneven ground and symbolizes, according to its creator, an abstract representation of a field of wheat whipped by the wind… The memorial was inaugurated in May of 2005, after two years of works and numerous controversies. In him there is an underground information center in which the tragic history of the Jews is counted. Behind this great cement structure there are buildings that are renewing. They will be destined to you soothe banking, hotels of luxury and the embassy of the United States.
Oct 13 2009
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Anne Frank was one of the millions of Jewish victims of the Nazis during World War II. Although she was only 13 years old when she died, Anne Frank’s story has been told many times thanks to the diary she kept whilst she was in hiding in Amsterdam. Anne was born in Germany and along with her father (Otto), mother (Edith Frank-Hollander) and sister (Margot), fled to Holland to escape persecution.
Otto had set up a successful food business and part of the company was located in a building on Prinsengracht. In May 1940, Germany invaded Holland and they brought with them, the repression of the Jewish people. Fearful about the fate of his family, in July 1942, Otto Frank moved his family to an annex at the back of the building at 263 Prinsengracht. Later, the Franks were joined in the Annex by Hermann and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and Fritz Pfeffer.
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Jun 19 2009