Jumat, 01 Oktober 2010

Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas


What will you do if you go to Memorial to the murdered people? Should you walk slowly in silent to respect the murdered people or jump around and don’t care about what had happened?

Well, if you go to other Memorial maybe you will keep silent. But, it’s different if you go to Denkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas in Berlin.

“If young people here jump from stone to another, and they got warned by the elder people that you should behave in order to respect the murdered Jews. Then, the young people don’t care, and that will make Peter Eisermann happy,” says Daniel , our friend from Goethe Institut Berlin.

Peter Eisermann is American Jews who designed the Memorial. Sounds strange isn’t it. At first, I was also confuse with Daniel’s explanation. But, after I listened Daniel’s explanation. I got it. I agree with Daniel that the idea is brilliant.

For Germany people, the history of NAZI resulted different reactions. Some people didn’t want to be open with this dark reality because it’s too humiliating, but some people consider that this history must be open. Because by facing the dark reality, Germany people can heal the wound for the goodness of the next generation.

That’s why if you see the design of this Memorial, you will never recognise that this is a Memorial for the death people. Because Peter doesn’t want to bring the memory of people who see this Memorial back to the Cruelness of NAZI.

Yes, it is necessary to remind the history but we can’t keep living in guilty feeling. Especially for the next generation. They don’t deserve bring the previous generation’s sin. This Memorial tells that something horroble once happened. And this acknowledgment needs big heart.

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