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Wed 05 May 2005Holocaust memorial opens after 17-year campaignGERMANY: Berlin's Holocaust Memorial was officially opened yesterday, marking the end of a 17-year campaign by journalist Lea Rosh, sarcastically dubbed Germany's "Holocaust Cassandra".The €25 million memorial, 2,700 gleaming concrete pillars sprouting from the tainted soil between the Brandenburg Gate and the site of Hitler's chancellery, is intended as a place of reflection on the Nazis' systematic murder of Europe's Jews.