CC — Isabel Feist

Don’t take me there

Grunewald ‘Gleis 17'

“Starting on 18 October 1941 the adjacent goods station until February 1945 was one of the major sites of deportation of the Berlin Jews. The trains left mainly for the ghettos of Litzmannstadt and Warsaw, from 1942 directly for the Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps. On 18 October 1991 a monument was inaugurated at the ramp leading to the former freight yard. The Deutsche Bahn had a memorial established on 27 January 1998 at the historic track 17 (“Gleis 17”), where most of the deportation trains departed.” ( #wikipedia )

Remembering the Holocaust and the German history is something quite simple in Berlin. There are a lot of places, some known, others not so much, to memorial the horror, the victims and the pain.