The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für
die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust
Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to
the Jewish victims and other victims of the Holocaust, designed
by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It
consists of a 19,000 square meter (4.7 acre) site covered with
2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on
a sloping field. It also includes statues of non-Jewish victims
of the Holocaust at its corners. The stelae are 2.38m (7.8')
long, 0.95m (3' 1.5") wide and vary in height from 0.2 m to 4.8m
(8" to 15'9"). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae
are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the
whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system
that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the
Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet,
however, states that the design represents a radical approach to
the traditional c