Silhouettes etched into a concrete wall, (Karol Broniatowski) a monument on the ramp up 17 Memorial, in Berlin-Grunewald Station, Berlin.

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A concrete wall with negative imprints of human bodies has commemorated the long walks and marches to the deportation stations. "Starting on 18 October 1941 until February 1945, the adjacent goods station was one of the major sites of deportation of Jews from Berlin. The trains left for ghettos in Eastern Europe such as Litzmannstadt and Warsaw. In 1942 trains left directly for Auschwitz and Theresienstadt concentration camps. A total of 35 trains transporting 17,000 Jews departed from Platform 17 (Gleis 17) directly to Auschwitz. By the end of the war more than 50,000 Jews had been deported through this station. " Wikipedia info From the fall of 1941 to the spring of 1942, approximately 10,000 German Jews were deported from here to labor and concentration camps in Riga, Warsaw, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Theresienstadt.

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Size: 5085px × 3390px
Location: Berlin-Grunewald Station, Berlin, Germany
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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