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to remember the Shoah



In Rome, the museum Holocaust

Even Rome, and Berlin, Paris, London, Jerusalem and Washington will finally have a place to remember the Shoah. The
Roman Museum of the Holocaust, planned in 2005, it begins to take shape and the preliminary draft - signed by architects Luca Zevi and Giorgio Tamburini - was officially handed over to the City of Rome.

The museum, set up and managed by the Foundation was founded in 2008, will rise on Nomentana, near Villa Torlonia, a particularly significant to the history and Jewish culture, "given the presence of a number of Jewish catacombs .
is made palpable memories of horror, in addition to testimony and documents on display inside the building will look the same, designed to immediately impress the visitor and through the sense of drama that led to death of six million Jews in a few years.

The salient features of the future museum : eight floors, including four underground to mitigate the impact with the surrounding buildings. The external structure will consist of a double volume: a rectangular black (looming from above, indicating " as the seeds of that horrific tragedy and incomparable still devolve upon us ") with inside the exhibition halls and services preceded the entrance in the shape of a cone (which will evoke the chimneys of the concentration camps).
be emphasized the position of the "black box" Who will come out if the museum will be above your head, without visible support, with the feeling of a mass that can fall at any moment. Obvious symbol of the " need to continue to deal with a tragedy that can not be closed if it is true, how true, that our days are passed through by intolerance and oppression .
The building will extend over a total area of \u200b\u200b5,113 square meters and will include, in addition to the permanent exhibition, an archive, a library, offices, classrooms, a multipurpose conference room, bookshop, cafe and underground parking duplex (over 2,200 square meters).
highly symbolic is also the entry: " a formless clay volume, as opposed to the geometric purity of the black box, to evoke the cataclysmic destruction that is in the historic course of European civilization . From here you can access the main body and, through a long stairway, you reach the top of the building where it will unfold, then, the story of the persecution and extermination, " by the emergence of totalitarian regimes to the anti-Jewish legislation, by concentration camps to the gas chambers .
The work will be expected to complete in about 35 months and will cost 13 million 400 thousand euro.

From the website of The Republic you can watch rendering of the preliminary draft.