2023-08-13 04:35:38
A book box on National Socialism, part of a Berlin monument dedicated to Jews deported by the Nazis, was set on fire by an unknown person, Berlin police said on Saturday. “Almost all the books were burned,” said the police on X (formerly Twitter).
At dawn, two witnesses saw a man set fire to this box of books – a former telephone booth turned into a mini-library, police added. An investigation has been opened.
This book box is part of a commemorative set called “Track 17”, from Grünewald station, in the west of the German capital. An audio device also made it possible to listen to extracts from these works, according to The Day Mirror.
Along with Putlitzstrasse and Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin-Grunewald was the main station in Berlin for transit and departure to the eastern camps. From 1941 about 50,000 German Jews to concentration and extermination camps in Riga, Warsaw, Auschwitz and Theresienstadt.
186 trains went to hell
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 tracks 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 site.
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