Book burning memorial at Bebelplatz, Holocaust memorial in Bebelplatz, Germany
The underground chamber measures 5 meters deep with white walls and empty bookshelves, visible through a glass plate in the pavement.
On May 10, 1933, Nazi students and professors burned over 20,000 books from Jewish, communist, liberal, and social-critical authors at this location.
The memorial includes bronze plates with Heinrich Heine's prophetic quote from 1820 about burning books leading to burning people.
The memorial site remains accessible throughout the day between the State Opera, St. Hedwig Cathedral, and Humboldt University Law Faculty.
Erich Kästner watched unrecognized as his own book 'Fabian' burned in the rain, requiring firefighters to add petrol to maintain the flames.
Location: Bezirk Mitte von Berlin
Inception: 1995
Creator: Micha Ullman
Official opening: May 20, 1995
Height: 5.29 m
Length: 7.06 m
Width: 7.06 m
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
Made from material: concrete, glass, plasterwork, wood, metal, color
GPS coordinates: 52.51652,13.39394
Latest update: May 27, 2025 07:16
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