This book is a detailed critical study of LibeskindOs Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust changed our perception of history, memory, witnessing and representation, it develops the notion of Nmemorial ethicsO to explore the MuseumOs difference from more conventional post-World War Two commemorative sites. The main focus is on the Museum as an experience of the materiality of trauma which engages the visitor in a performative duty to remember. Arleen Ionescu builds on LevinasOs idea of Nethics as opticsO to show how LibeskindOs Museum becomes a testimony to the unpresentable Other. Ionescu also extends the MuseumOs experiential dimension by proposing her own subjective walk through LibeskindOs space reimagined as a Nliterary museumO. Featuring reflections on texts by Beckett, Celan, Derrida, Kafka, Blanchot, Wiesel and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (CelanOs cousin), this virtual tour concludes with a brief account ofLibeskindOs analogous Nhealing projectO for Ground Zero.