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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 17:53 07/08/2007 Cracks found in foundations of Holocaust memorial in Berlin By The Associated Press Tags: restoration, Berlin, memorial  Cracks some several meters long have appeared in the 2-year-old Holocaust memorial in the heart of Berlin. Fissures in 393 of the 2,711 concrete slabs that make up the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe will need to be filled with synthetic resin before winter, memorial director Uwe Neumaerker said Tuesday. "The synthetic resin needs to be filled into the cracks to keep more water from penetrating the slabs," Neumaerker said. "We hope that afterward one won't be able to see those white calcium deposits anymore that have been created by the water." Advertisement He said the cracks did not threaten the stability of the slabs. The site will remain open during the repair work. Designed by the American architect Peter Eisenman, the 27.6 million (US$38.14 million) memorial - a vast field of gray slabs located around the corner from the Brandenburg Gate - opened to the public in May 2005. The memorial is a labyrinth of narrow rising and falling pathways in a field of concrete slabs. The tomblike slabs range in height from 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) to 4.7 meters (5 yards). It was not clear how the cracks developed but there are a few construction sites nearby which could have caused them, Neumaerker said. Vibrations from the new U.S. embassy building and a suburban railway tunnel could have affected the site, Neumaerker said. Neumaerker could not say how much the restoration would cost but city official Manuela Damianakis told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that Geithner Bau, the company that built the slabs, would have to pay for the restoration. Damianakis and the company could not immediately be reached for comment. An estimated 3 million people visit the monument every year, and more than 1 million visitors have registered at the site's underground information center, according to the foundation that runs the memorial to the Nazis' estimated 6 million Jewish victims Bookmark to del.icio.us Killer Cruise Tom Cruise wins an award for portraying a would-be Hitler assassin in a recent film. Remember my name Millions of names, believed vanished, are being added to Holocaust museum records.   1.   The memorial 17:42  |  Shana 07/08/07   2.   Is this the work of Iran? 18:25  |  Simba 07/08/07   3.   Memorial 19:32  |  jb 07/08/07   4.   I hope it all falls down. 19:50  |  Deborah 07/08/07   5.   Holocaust memorial 20:19  |  Jan van Mil 07/08/07   6.   It`s there for a purpose 20:37  |  sh 07/08/07   7.   cracks 22:07  |  TAZ 07/08/07   8.   False monuments and idols 00:41  |  Hannah 08/08/07   9.   LAMENTING 01:01  |  IBRAHIM ABRAHAM 08/08/07   10.   Disgust 01:05  |  Thomas Hill 08/08/07   11.   ups 01:05  |  wh 08/08/07

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