Berlin's Jewish Memorial Museum

The Jewish Museum in Berlin. The off-kilter square columns, on the slanted floor, that disorient you. This is an experiential museum. See www.travellady.com/Issues/August05/1751TracingJewishBerlin. There is an exhibit where you step into a long rectangular area, that gets dark and enclosed and the end, and is filled with 7-9" iron disks.

Each disk each has shaped holes for different kinds of eyes and mouth shapes, forming faces, and expressions from horror to disbelief, to all the rest that people feel in their situaiton. You step in, they move and sounds are made. If you move faster the sounds get louder. So you tiptoe. There still are sounds. You go back to the dark part, and suddenly you are there.




We had come there from Weimar and Buchenwald, in the fog. Do go to Berlin.