The debates over whether to have such a memorial and what form it should take extend back in the late 1980s, when a small group of private German citizens, led by a television journalist, Lea Rosh, and a historian, Eberhard Jäckel, neither of whom is Jewish, first began pressing for Germany to honor the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.[10] Rosh soon emerged the driving force behind the memorial. In 1989, she founded a group to support its construction and to collect donations.[11] With growing support, the Bundestag passed a resolution in favour of the project