For months, I'd been walking past a large fenced off area where a large glass building was being constructed, not having a clue what it was, but just the other day, I finally found out that it was a giant building accompanying the Jewish Ghetto Memorial below:
Of the Memorial itself, I was first drawn to the Jewish Passover Chanukiah symbol below.
Moreover, upon closer inspection, I saw that there was a 'stone offering' accompanying the picture of a young person in front of the chanukiah:
The young person must've been a victim of the Nazis, as the date 1925-1943 lay in the bottom left-hand corner of the picture. Of course, like anybody else, I found this moving.
A few months before this, I'd seen this kind of 'stone offering' on a grave in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, and some months before this, I'd seen the same thing at a prehistoric, Stonehenge-type site in County Cork, Ireland. Thus, the offering of small stones to the dead may've been a central religious ritual of early man, still kept alive by modern-day Jews and Pagans.
Besides the above, I was drawn towards the ornate design of the glass on the huge building accompanying the Jewish Ghetto Memorial:
Think that I'll have to visit the Jewish Ghetto Memorial again to get a fuller picture of the place.
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