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Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe
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Who created it ? The creator : Peter Eisenman
he was born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey In he got his bachelor of Architecture Degree from Cornell In 1959 he got his Master of Architecture Degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation In he got M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge in England Peter Eisenman is the Charles Gwathmey professor in practice at Yale University, offering studio courses and courses in design, visual analysis, and architecture theory
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Information on the art The history behind it What its made from ?
In 1933, the Jewish population in Europe stood at nine million. By 1945, the Germans killed off two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution." This Final Solution was the German's plan to annihilate all of the Jews. Though other groups were targeted during these years during the Holocaust, Jews were the primary target. Also it The memorial was finished in 2005, but it was originally thought of in 1993. The Memorial is made up of 2,711 massive rectangular stone slabs on a sloping stretch of land. The site can be found between East and West Berlin.
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Symbolism The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust who lost their lives .
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