| On the streets leading off the Bavarian Quarter (Bayerische Platz), a comfortable middle-class city area in the Schoeneberg district in former East Berlin, one comes across simple signs attached to lamp posts. Outside a grocery store, high above on a lamppost, there is a sign. On one side of a sign, a picture shows a small item, such as a loaf of bread. The other side has a short phrase detailing a racial ordinance that led to the Final Solution, for example, Jews may only buy groceries from 4 to 5 in the afternoon. In a few cases, the These signs are the creation of Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock. The memorial, entitled "Places of Remembrance," shows "the thorough integration of the terror of machinary within everyday life in Germany from 1933 to 1945." The simplicity of signs blend in with lifeblood of community. Through recalling the little actions which led up to the Final Solution, one can see, or witness, how small anti-Jewish measures made the progression to the Final solution seem inevitable, natural even. They show how Jews were systematically discriminated against and disenfranchised. | ![]() |