Designed by Peter Eisenman, the memorial consists of 2,711 concrete steles, of different heights through which visitors can walk. While Eisenman does not explicitly explain the meaning behind these forms, Constanze Petrow speculates that their collective form provides both a recollection of traditional Jewish cemeteries as well as a sense of loss of the Jewish community through the contrast of the quiet space of the memorial with the noise of the surrounding city. See also Memorial to gay and lesbian victims of National Socialism Notes References Koonz, Claudia. "Between Memory and Oblivion: Concentration Camps in German Memory." Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Ed. John R. Gillis. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. 258-280. Mead, Andrew. "Winning Scheme Uncovers Sombre Traces of the Past." The Architects' Journal 207.22 (1998): 40. Petrow, Constanze A. "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin." Topos 50 (2005): 86-92. Weilacher, Udo. In Gardens: Profiles of Contemporary European Landscape Architecture. Boston: Birkhäuser, 2005. Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim. "The Landscape Design of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial." Places of Commemoration: Search for Identity and Landscape Design. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001: 269-300. Young, James E. At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. See also List of Holocaust memorials Holocaust commemoration