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History Holocaust 1941-1945
LindenstraBe 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany
02 HISTORY BEHIND
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THE HOLOCAUST
In 1933 Hitler’s Nazi took power in Germany.This eventually lead to the institutionalized genocide of the jewish people in europe. Of the 9 million jews that lived in europe at the time, around two-third of them were mass murdered by gas, starvation, disease, and hopelessness.
Jewish presence in Berlin dates back to 13th century, and while they were not always accepted within normal society, they started percolated into all sectors of society from science to business. And yet,the WWII germans allowed their collectivization, and deportation to take them to the graves
AFFECTED THE DESIGN
The Jewish Museum in Berlin is both a tribute celebrating the accomplishments of the Jews in Berlin, as well as a memorial remembering what should never occur again.
In 1987, the Berlin government organized an anonymous competition for an expansion to the original Jewish Museum in Berlin that opened in 1933. The program wished to bring a Jewish presence back to Berlin after WWII. In 1988, Daniel Libeskind was chosen as the winner among several other internationally renowned architects; his design was the only project that implemented a radical, formal design as a conceptually expressive tool to represent the Jewish lifestyle before, during, and after the Holocaust.
