David's homework: Design for a Holocaust Memorial
Here, at the front of the monument, is the small gate labeled "Arbiet Macht Frei" (Work Will Make You Free). This slogan was used on the gate to one of the German labor camps in the Holocaust.
Here is the whole monument from the front. You can see the incinerator chimneys in the middle, the maze-like passageways on the front and sides, the strange blocks in the back, and just a bit of the dome of ashes. Reaching to each corner are four segments of railroad track symbolizing the trains that were used to ship Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and others to the concentration camps.
Here is a birds-eye view of the monument. The maze represents the trickiness of being in hiding or running and trying not to end up in the hands of the Nazis. A few dead ends are marked with pictures symbolizing different events that happened in the Holocaust.
Here are two examples of the pictures at different dead ends of the maze. Above, a synagogue is burning in the fires of Kristallnacht.
In this picture, a woman and two children are cowering in front of a Nazi soldier.
Here are the incinerator towers. The tallest one reaches to a monstrous hight of 86 feet. They are built in the middle of the monument to symbolize that they were the one dead end most concentration camp prisoners ran into.
Finally, here is the "pile of ashes" at the rear of the monument. It is supposed to represent the ashes of all the dead who were burned instead of buried.