Memorials
February 3rd, 2009
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Berlin is littered with memorials, particularly for the jews murdered during the Holocaust. Everywhere you look there’s a plaque, or a statue, or entire areas covered in mock tombs. There’s even talk of making independent memorials for other groups, such as the gypsies.
None I’ve seen have so effectively conveyed the message as these small copper pebbles, embedded in the road outside the houses where those deported and exterminated used to live. They list their birth year, where they were sent to, and when they died.
