You look in awe at the size of it, I've never seen an installation of this scale and it seems to grow the more you explore it. There are children running around playing hide and seek, people looking bored and people absorbing every aspect of what this place signifies. It's good to walk through it alone, you know there are so many others around you doing the exact same thing but you only get to see them for a split second, like an echo.
From a distance, each stone seems to be a sunken or raised copy of the next but up close you get to appreciate and touch the small imperfections that make them, anonymous and unique all at the same time. The pillars loom over you, it can be claustrophobic or somewhat comforting, I found myself feeling both. The place is hauntingly peaceful, a sense the dead have been layed to rest.
Here are mine and my brother's photographs from the memorial, he also has many more of the wonderful sites of Berlin, click here for his website.
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