Overview
- The museum has opened a special exhibition for its 25th anniversary that revisits how Daniel Libeskind’s zigzag building took shape and became a landmark of Holocaust remembrance.
- Director Hetty Berg calls the building a medium of memory, noting how its form turns loss and absence into a space visitors can feel as they move through it.
- Key displays include the early ‘Names’ model set on lists of murdered Berlin Jews and the Voids, which are empty concrete shafts that cut through the building to mark what was erased.
- Libeskind attended the opening and said the rise in violence against Jews would lead him today to stress the Voids even more and draw their connections tighter.
- The show also unveils his rejected plan for the former SS troop training ground in Sachsenhausen, whose model was donated to the museum and whose design earned a municipal special prize.