A painting of the Star of David over the German flag is one of the many murals on the Berlin Wall's East Side Gallery section, which is dubbed the "largest open-air gallery in the world."
Berlin's Neue Synagoge, completed in 1866, saw much turbulence and destruction before and during World War II and was not reopened until 1995 after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
A plaque in front of the Neue Synagogue in Berlin tells of the building's history.
On sidewalks across Europe are stolpersteines (stumbling blocks), small, gold-looking memorials that identify the victims of Nazism who lived in the building behind the blocks, when they were born, when they were deported, and when and where they were murdered.
Some of the 2,711 concrete pillars that make up the Memorial to the Murdered Jews stand before the TV Tower in Berlin. Ironically, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' bunker was located at the same site.
Student visitors to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews hug atop one of its 2,711 pillars.
A girl hops from pillar to pillar at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin.
The Anhalter Bahnhof, once a large, major railway station in Berlin, was severely damaged during World War II, and all that remains today is this facade. The station was one of three in the city used to deport the local Jewish population during the Holocaust.
The Jüdisches Museum in Berlin was completed in 1999 and opened in 2001.
An interactive world map that shows paths of the Third Reich's expansion is on display at the Jüdisches Museum in Berlin.
On display at the Jüdisches Museum in Berlin is "The Swastika" by Charlotte Salomon, a German artist and Jew who was murdered while pregnant at Auschwitz in 1943.
The Jüdisches Museum's Garden of Exile comprises of 49 columns with olive willows growing from the top.
The Holocaust Tower at the Jüdisches Museum in Berlin is a 79-foot-tall metal enclosure that is lit by the sun only from a relatively small opening in a roof corner.
The walls of the Jüdisches Museum in Berlin contain the names of concentration camps before and during World War II.
A stack of yarmulkes is displayed in the Jüdisches Museum in Berlin.
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The key marking of the Third Reich’s brutality was the systematic discrimination and eventual genocide inflicted on millions of European Jews.
Today, much reverence is paid in respect of their suffering, and during my recent trip to Berlin, this was abundantly apparent all over the city.
Though I’m sure there are many more subtle signs, the above photos show some of those that jumped out to me as a quick visitor. And below is what it looks and sounds like to walk over the face exhibit at the Jüdisches Museum in Berlin.
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