Even though I knew the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin would confront me with some of the feeling of people disappearing, the reality was eerie. I sat at the southeast corner and looked at the square block of randomly shaped stone in front of me. Between the uneven stones were uneven pathways. The pathways were sometimes a few feet lower than the stones they passed between, sometimes they were twenty feet lower.
As people walk through the narrow paths between the stones,
they appear, disappear, reappear and disappear again. Heads pop up 50 feet away
then they are gone. I did not know the people in front of me, they just
appeared and disappeared. Kids seldom showed up. So I would see a man walking
and then see two little heads for a moment. Then those heads would disappear.
Then the father would disappear.
Here is a video that will let you see what I saw.
