Memorial to all Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial by architect Peter Eisenman with engineer Buro Happold.
This memorial is in Berlin and is dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. There is a great deal of controversy regarding the existence of the Memorial. We are not putting forward a point [...]

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CJ on October 18th, 2009

This has been a hard subject to consider and then write about. But I must before the memories and the strength of my emotions and feelings are reduced.
We decided to hook up with a tour guide, not being German speakers and also not being fully cognisant of the story of Dachau. We were instructed to [...]

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CJ on May 2nd, 2009

We left by train for Munich on the Monday morning after the birthday garden party. Fortunately M had looked up the trip for us on the internet because we had missed the train we had intended to catch and were very surprised at all the changes that we had to make. That is, we had [...]

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A Birthday in Untersiggenthal or was it a visit to Bad Säckingen?
We have just been to Switzerland for A’s (M’s partner) birthday, followed by a meandering through Germany.
The party was held in their garden, the weather was great and the garden looked absolutely lovely all set up for the day. Lots of tables, [...]

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