In the last decades of the twentieth century proliferated in the West the building of memorials and museums dedicated to the Holocaust's memory. The center of this architectural development was in the United States, host country of a large number of survivors. In Miami, in the mid-eighties, a group of survivors took the initiative to create a memorial, commemorating the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. What was the objective in this building iniciative and which materials were used in the process? Can a memorial, besides informing and representing the horror, be used as a tool for our present? And what are the elements that a memorial can offer in order to think the construction of a memory about the victims? These and other questions guided the present study, which seeks to understand the contributions of memorial spaces. Our questions and reactions are no longer faced with the event itself, which is distant in time, but rather with the means, in this case the memorial, that transmits it to us.
