Several days after the memorial officially opened, Peter Rigny, an American citizen and long-time resident of Berlin, and an associate producer on this FRONTLINE film, "A Jew Among the Germans," visited the site. Here he writes of his impressions and presents some the photographs he took.

Six reviews that appeared in American, British and German newspapers assessing architect Peter Eisenman's five and a half acre monument that, from afar, looks like a sea of 2,711 charcoal-colored stone blocks. Visitors can enter from all four sides and lose themselves in the labryrinths as they navigate the narrow paths between the slightly tilted stone blocks, walking on uneven ground beneath their feet. Underground, in the southeast corner of the site, an Information Center provides background on the victims commemorated.

An overview of the years of bitter bureaucratic, philosphical and political wrangling over Germany's new national Holocaust memorial that was unveiled May 10, 2005.

Only a few months before the German Bundestag voted in June 1999 to build the Berlin Holocaust memorial, prominent German writer Martin Walser offered his views on the subject of Holocaust memorials. His statements sparked a firestorm of controversy that lasted for months in Germany. Here is a summary.

James E. Young, the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on Germany's commission to select the final Holocaust memorial design, writes about what happened after the design that was first selected by the jury in 1995 was resoundingly rejected. Excerpted from Young's book, At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture.