- himself: Inevitably a building has to have an idea behind it otherwise it is just a pile of concrete and glass and so on. This is a museum which by walking, by evoking the movement of the pedestrian and the museum visitor, one is close to the trajectories that criss-cross the building externally and internally. So it is a mechanism for understanding the history. It is actually an organic connection through the means of architecture which is walking, seeing, streets, lights, proportions of space that one is actually engaged in the content of the building, in the content of the building, inseparable from the way one moves through it.
- himself: I often think to myself that it is not a museum I had to go to the library to research and look into the archives and find out about the history of Berlin, because, you know, I am a part of the history. My parents were survivors, are survivors and I was born only a few kilometers form the Ringroad of Berlin and Poland, so this is not a history that is something foreign to me, in fact I am apart of this history and I was able also to evoke my own background as part of what it was to be a Jewish Berliner in the city, across the different times from it's beginning of the Jewish community here hundred and hundred of years ago to an unfortunate past and present.
- himself: In a bizarre way there are really two destructions, I mean the first destruction was the destructions of the culture, the flight of so many Jewish intellectuals and important figures and thinkers, and then of course the total destruction that followed.