Centropa Blog Post 3 from Susan Cohn

The day started with a trip to Wannsee-Berlin to visit the site where the Nazi's decided to make the murder of the Jews the national policy of the Nazi German government.  In this beautiful, quiet, elegant lakeside villa, the most horrific actions in the history of humankind were discussed and operationalized by the Nazis.  The last part of the day was a visit to the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of the Holocaust.  The concrete monuments were a graphic representation to the 6,000,000 Jews murdered, and the information center beneath was filled with heartbreaking stories of individuals and families who were murdered.  It was a very emotional day.