During the visit to the Roma and Sinti gypsy memorial site, the one question that came up was how does this memorial site differ from the Murder of the Jews Memorial. It was discussed that it felt more as a memorial site than a tourist attraction as the memorial for the Jewish people felt. There is a timeline printed on a glass wall separating the memorial site from the park and a part of the glass that had what looked like a poem separating it from the on look of the Reichstag building. It was mentioned through the talk how serene it felt, there was a triangle that was the identification badge of the Roma and Sinti individuals in the concentration camps that was the main focal point in the centre of the pond and the words of an Ascuhwitz survivor’s poem were around the pond/triangle. Also, the places of …show more content…
The question to answer is; why is it important that the memorial site of the Roma and Sinti gypsies is different from the memorial site of the murdered Jewish individuals. I feel it is important due to the fact that it is set up in a way that it is supposed to evoke a certain emotion and feeling. It has an intended purpose and it is making it known. I feel as though it went in a completely different path than the murdered Jews memorial so one could not accurately compare the two memorials side by side. Again, this discussion links to Simon’s Remembering Otherwise, he mentions that we should remember otherwise because there is still effects of the past in the present. The gypsy memorial was created, at least in my personal view, to memorialize the past and to stir up feelings for the past and future generations. This is important to me because it is giving recognition to more groups whom have suffered