Photo:Andreas Scheuermann
Matthew Bronfman, member of the Budget and Finance Commission of the World Jewish Congress, has visited the Holocaust Memorial and the Jewish Museum in Berlin. After paying a visit to the memorial of 2,700 grey concrete slabs, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and unveiled last year, Bronfman praised the monument as a site for an "intense commemoration" of the Shoah. He added that because the field of slabs did not have names it left space for the personal emotions of each visitor. Bronfman, who was in Berlin for the meeting of the WJC Policy Council, also praised the documentation center underneath the memorial, especially its focus on the individual stories of Holocaust victims. Opened in May 2005, the memorial has already attracted more than four million visitors.
