The Empty Library

Local nameDenkmal zur Erinnerung an die Bücherverbrennung
LocationMitte, Berlin, Deutschland

The Empty Library, also known as Bibliothek or simply Library, is a public memorial by Israeli sculptor Micha Ullman dedicated to the remembrance of the Nazi book burnings that took place in the Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany on May 10, 1933. The memorial is set into the cobblestones of the plaza and contains a collection of empty subterranean bookcases.

It is located in the centre of Berlin next to the Unter den Linden. The memorial commemorates the 10th of May 1933, when students of the National Socialist Student Union and many professors of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität under the musical accompaniment of SA- and SS-Kapellen, burnt over 20,000 books from many, mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors, before a large audience at the university's Old Library and in the middle of the former Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Platz, now Bebelplatz.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty_Library

Address 2 Bebelplatz, Berlin 10117, Germany

Coordinates 52°30'59.457" N 13°23'38.172" E

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