Grey sky view, to Judische Gymanasium, Holocaust memorial at site of Jewish Old People's Home, Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Berlin
In 1993 Berlin's Jewish Community re-opened the former Jewish Community School for Boys (Knabenschule der Judischen Gemeinde) as a public middle and high school, the first post-war graduation being in the summer of 2000. The school building, dating to 1905/06, lay next to the Old People's Home of the Jewish Community in Berlin, dating to 1828 and destroyed by Allied bombing in April 1945. Both buildings were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1942 and converted into so-called Judenlager, where, prior to their deportation and murder in the concentration camps, 55,000 Jewish citizens of Berlin were held in inhuman conditions. A German language information sign at the site of the Old People's Home of the Berlin Jewish Community in Grosse Hamburger Strasse reads: 'Here, at this point, until its destruction in World War 2, was the building of the Old People's Home of the Jewish Community in Berlin, dating to 1828. The National Socialists converted the building in 1942 to a so-called 'Judelager', where, prior to their deportation and murder in the concentration camps, were held 55,000 Jewish citizens of Berlin in inhuman conditions. After the war the above ground debris of the nursing home was removed. In 1985 a figural group made by the sculptor, Will Lammert, and originally created as a Ravensbruck Memorial, was put in place together with a memorial plaque. In 2007/8, in respect to the restoration of the Jewish Cemetery, Will Lammert's figural group was integrated with a Star of David plaque in the cemetery restoration. At the same time, we uncovered the foundations of the nursing home and outlined them with red bricks. The spaces are filled up with destroyed waste as a reminder of the Old People's Home.'
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Location: Site of Jewish Old People's Home, Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Berlin, Germany
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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