We Must Understand

Abstract

The author’s statement raises an acute problem about how it is possible to remember and talk about the horrors of the World War II; and what level of personal culture and knowledge of history is required from tourists who visit the “places of memory” of urban landscapes. We are talking about the monument at the Berlin Friedrichstrasse station which is a symbol of the events of 1938–1939, when after Kristallnacht, Jewish public figures appealed to the British Prime Minister N. Chamberlain to allow Jewish children temporary entry into the country. Permission was obtained and supported by the public, ready to take children into families. Operation Kindertransport saved the lives of 10,000 Jewish children taken from Germany to England. The remaining ones were doomed to сoncentration camps.