Pre-Site Visit Reflection: Gunter Demnig constructed a memorial in 1992 to commemorate the 1,000 Cologne Roma and Sinti who were taken to the city center on May 6, 1940, for deportation to extermination camps. Demnig created a single bronze monument etched with the deportation order and placed it in the municipal square in front of… Continue reading Stumbling Stones – By Ruby L.
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Neue Synagoge – By Beah
Pre-Site Visit Reflections: During our time in Berlin, we will enjoy the privilege of holding our class time at the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) on Oranienburgerstrasse. As a Jewish person on this trip, I think it is extremely significant that in the midst of our learning and visiting sites of Jewish (and other) persecution and… Continue reading Neue Synagoge – By Beah
Bebelplatz Book Burning Memorial – By Ava
Pre-Site Visit Reflection What is the memorial physically? The sunken library is a memorial that highlights what is missing. Underneath the ground of Bebelplatz sits a square of empty white shelves. This empty library has space for over 20,000 books as a reminder of the 20,000 books burned on May 10, 1933 by the Nazi… Continue reading Bebelplatz Book Burning Memorial – By Ava
Topography of Terror – By Lucas
Pre-Site Visit Reflections: Described as once being “the most feared address” in Berlin, the site on which the Topography of Terror now stands serves as an example of the city’s multilayered history (Connolly). In telling the stories of both perpetrator and victim, this museum and memorial site shows us the challenges memorial work meets in… Continue reading Topography of Terror – By Lucas
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial – By Jordyn
Pre-Site Visit Reflections Auschwitz was founded on the orders of SS Reich Leader Heinrich Himmler on the 27th of April 1940 in Oświęcim, Poland. The first prisoners sent here were majority Polish Political prisoners who were to be exploited for slave labour. In March 1941, Himmler ordered a second and larger complex be built next to… Continue reading Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial – By Jordyn