Locality
13°24´37" east longitude, 52°31´19" north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Central Berlin, Behren-/ Ebertstraße, Germany, Europa

Historical relevance of location
This is the terrain of the Holocaust monument in the city of Berlin; in memory of 6 Million murdered Jews. Ten years were to pass before decision was reached about the kind and location of the monument. The construction work will begin in January 2000 (January is the month of the rescue of Jews in Auschwitz 1945). Some metres from this location was the course of wall between East- and Westberlin - 1961 till 1989.

Classification of the earth

Structure	sand with gravel
Colour	light brown
Age	Quaternary, Pleistocene, Weichsel glacial period

Donor

Andrea Heinke,
 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Office Berlin,
 Germany