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30 Detroit Jewish News

erman Jewish leaders are
welcoming a compromise
decision reached over the
weekend to build a com-
bined Holocaust monument and
research center in Berlin. But the
details of the plan remain sketchy, and
the new plan still has to be approved
by the German Parliament.
The plan, negotiated by former U.S.
Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal,
the head of the soon-to-be-opened
Jewish museum in Berlin, adds the
research center and a giant wall of books
to the monument, which was designed
by American architect Peter Eisenman.
The compromise, agreed to by
Eisenman, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder
and his cultural minister, Michael
Naumann, both of whom originally
opposed the monument, would also
reduce the size of Eisenman's memorial
from 2,700 to about 1,800 stone slabs.
The current model is much better
than the previous design," German
Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis said.
Bubis and other Jewish leaders had
been upset with plans by Germany's
center-left government, which took
office in October, to drop construc-
tion of a monument in favor of a
combination research center, library,
and exhibition space.
But they have generally stayed out
of the recent debate over the memori-
al, saying it was a matter for Germans
to decide.
While the compromise appears to
end a decade of dickering over the pro-
posed memorial, it does not end all
questions. The agreement appears to
pave the way for an arrangement
between Blumenthal's museum and the
memorial, although exactly what that
relationship will be remains unclear.
One problem might be the higher
costs of the combined monument and
museum complex, which has jumped
from $18 million for a monument to
an estimated $54 million. Critics say
the money would be better spent on
restoration and maintenance costs at
existing memorials at former Nazi con-
centration camps such as Buchenwald,
Sachsenhausen and Dachau.
Some of the memorials have drasti-
cally reduced their opening times
because of a lack of funds. II

— Deidre Berger,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency