2023-08-13 04:24:46
In Berlin, an element of a monument dedicated to the Jews deported by the Nazis was defaced. A book box on National Socialism was set on fire by an unknown person, Berlin police said on Saturday.
“Almost all the books were burned,” police said on Twitter, renamed X. At dawn, two witnesses saw a man set fire to this book box – a former telephone booth transformed into a mini-library – added the police. An investigation has been opened.
Some 50,000 Jews deported from “Route 17”
This book box is part of a commemorative set called “Track 17” at Grünewald station in the west of the German capital. From “Route 17”, about 50,000 German Jews were deported from 1941 to concentration and extermination camps in Riga, Warsaw, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
In this memorial, which was inaugurated in January 1998, were sealed in chronological order, on the track from which the death convoys departed, 186 plaques with the date of departure of the train, the number of Jews on board and their final destination. “The vegetation that has made its way onto the rails is part of the memorial: it is the symbol that no train on this track will ever leave this station again”, indicates the city of Berlin on its official website.
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