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station Grunewald
 Platform
17
   Dates,
destination and number of deported Jews are engraved along the platform
 The
rails leading to death...
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Gleis 17 It was here on platform 17 at Berlin's Grunewald station, where in October 1941 the first train was filled with 1013 Jews and sent off to the concentration camps in Poland.From October 1941 to March 1945 about 55.000 Jews have been forced to leave their homes and were brought to the Berlin railway stations Putzlitzstraße, Anhalter Bahnhof and Grunewald. From there they were deported to the concentration camps in Theresienstadt, Riga, Lodz and Ausschwitz where they were killed. Gleis 17 is a memorial for them. It was installed by the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) in 1998. The railway company, then called "Reichsbahn", was one of the main winners of the cruel deportations, charging 0.02 German Marks per "passenger" and kilometer. How
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