Holocaust Memorial, Berlin, Germany Postcard

"Holocaust Memorial, Berlin, Germany" by Catherine Sherman. A section of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany, is shown here, with the German Reichstag building in the background. German and European Union flags fly atop the buildings. Trees have taken on their Autumn colours. On the right, the American flag flies over the Embassy of the United States of America. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold. It consists of a 1.9-hectare (4.7-acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The monument is situated on the former location of the Berlin Wall, where the "death strip" once divided the city. Building began on 1 April 2003, and was finished in December 2004. It was inaugurated in May 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II in Europe, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Mitte neighbourhood. The Reichstag, officially: Plenarbereich Reichstagsgebäude  ('Imperial Assembly'), a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin, is the seat of the German Bundestag. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the President of Germany.