So, Week 2 of our Where on Earth contest was slightly easier than last week’s location, Mt. Abu, India. John was the first to guess it, followed by Jim Rennie, unclejerru, eurotransient, and tmorga1. Good job, guys.
The answer is Berlin. More specifically, the blocks are part of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. I was there a couple of years ago when it first opened and found the memorial an odd mix of somberness and playfulness. As adults wandered about in respectful silence, kids ran amuck playing tag and hide-and-go-seek amongst the 2,711 enormous blocks. All I could think of was doing so myself; the thought of the horror of what the blocks symbolize all but lost.
The memorial has had a mixed reception. Many people hate it and the rest seem ambivalent. I don’t think anyone truly feels it accomplished the difficult task of hammering home the horror as well as it could have done. Nonetheless, I still recommend checking it out if you happen to be in Berlin.