Peter Eisenman, the architect of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial, caused a stir recently when he told a meeting of the memorial’s board of trustees that his New York dentist, after putting a gold filling in his teeth, “said he had just put a Degussa product in my tooth, and asked if he should take it out again.”

Eisenman, who is Jewish, said he told the story to lighten up the meeting, and didn’t mention Holocaust victims.

Eisenman offered a verbal apology this week. He also told the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper, “If necessary, I will ask personally for forgiveness again. I did not want to hurt anyone’s feelings or snub them. I am sorry. I did not intend that.”


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