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The black rectangle consists of a long list of names, one on each horizontal slab — the names of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. This unusual memorial — so public, so stark, so unadorned — is just one of the many ways that Berlin, now the official capital of Germany, remembers its past. Indeed, the past is pervasive in this city, which is also a vibrant and dynamic modern capital. It's a city which has much to offer the Jewish traveler — klezmer mu- sic concerts, kosher restaurants, a Jewish bookstore, six syna- gogues and much more. But besides all these attrac- tions of modern Jewish Berlin, the city is unique in the number and variety of its memorials to the Holocaust. Visiting them can add a spe- cial dimension to a trip to Berlin, as I discovered on a recent visit. Plaques, sculptures, full-scale ex- hibits — there were so many memorials I could not begin to cover them all. But the ones I did visit were often dramatic, un- usual, and eloquent. Auschwitz. Stutthof. Maid- anek. Treblinka. Theresienstadt. The names, displayed in such a public, stark way, made the Wit- tenbergplatz memorial unusual and arresting. Seated on a bench in the small park near the subway entrance, I watched as people rushed by, carrying briefcases and packages, passing the posted names. For daily commuters, it is part of the landscape by now. But it is there, inescapable, a constant reminder. Another visible reminder — this one a dramatic sculpture — is prominently displayed outside the modern Jewish Community Center at Fasanenstrasse 79-80. It depicts a Torah scroll rest- ing on a pedestal. But near the bottom, it is jaggedly cut off, a vis- ible reminder of th breaking of Jewish life in this city which was a once major Jewish center. A broken piece of the scroll, also resting on the pedestal, forms the second part of the sculpture. Inside, on the lobby level, is the Jewish community's larger Holo- caust memorial, this one set apart in a courtyard. Like the Wittenbergplatz, this one, too, fo- cuses on the names of the camps. But it is less public and much more a private and secluded spot for memory and reflection. The courtyard is silent and cool. Facing the visitor is a sim- ple gray wall depicting a map of Germany, with the sites of each concentration camp marked and named. Although this is a simple memorial, it has its special pow- er because it is on the grounds of a modern Jewish center in Berlin, a JCC which illustrates that Jew- ish life is flourishing in a city where it was once so cruelly de- stroyed. Other memorials I visited were dramatic not only because of what they showed but because they were located on the very sites where horrors of the Holocaust oc- curred. And there were many hor- L\