Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
We're grateful our listener-members' support year-round. Be part of our continued musical success in 2026 with your donation today, in any amount. Thank you!

Holocaust Memorial Opens in Berlin

Germany unveils a memorial in central Berlin to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Politicians, Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors were on hand for the solemn ceremony to inaugurate the monument designed by American architect Peter Eisenman.

The opening ends 17 years of debate over how Germany should mark the darkest chapter of its past.

 

Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Kyle James