194118 October 1941–1945 · Berlin

Deportation of Berlin's Jews

The Track 17 memorial at Grunewald station, its platforms covered with steel plates recording each deportation — Photo: Andreas Praefcke. CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From 18 October 1941, trains left Grunewald goods station and other Berlin yards for the ghettos and death camps of the east. More than 50,000 of the city's Jews were deported, and most were murdered. In 1943, women gathered for days on Rosenstraße to demand the release of their Jewish husbands, and the men were freed: a rare public protest.

Sites

Site 1: Track 17 memorial, Grunewald stationPlatform edge lined with steel plates giving each transport's date, size and destination.Map ↗
Site 2: Rosenstraße protest memorialStone sculptures recalling the women's protest of 1943.Map ↗
Site 3: Levetzowstraße deportation memorialMemorial on the site of a synagogue used as an assembly camp.Map ↗

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