Holocaust memorial considers rules

(En lo personal, estoy de acuerdo con el arquitecto)

The American architect who designed Berlin's new Holocaust memorial has urged German authorities not to impose rules that would restrict the behavior of visitors.

A debate about whether to impose restrictions was sparked after some parents allowed their children to run among the 2,711 gray slabs.

Other youngsters climbed on the pillars and jumped from one to another.

But Eisenman told an audience at Berlin's Jewish Museum on Monday night it was up to people to decide themselves how to reflect on the murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi government more than 60 years ago.

For example, he said the noise of children playing among the slabs for him recalled "the sounds of life in a Jewish neighborhood in the middle of the city," according to The Associated Press.

"I love the way in which Berliners have taken to the field of slabs and how the people are using it," he said.

"Here is the place and the time for everybody to behave as they see fit."