Part of our trip was devoted to remembering victims of the holocaust. Berlin has several touching memorials to this terrible history.
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These six small memorial plaques (Stolpersteine) were outside the front door of the building where we stayed in Berlin. They have been placed outside homes where victims of the Holocaust had lived before being sent to death camps.
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This train platform was the primary departure point for Berlin Jews being deported to death camps.
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This plaque is in the center of the memorial to the more than 50,000 Jewish citizens of Berlin that were deported from this platform to Nazi death camps and were murdered between October 1941 and February 1945.
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The platform surface has been replaced with metal grates embossed with numbers of victims deported by train each day and their destination (if known).
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The memorial is a very sobering illustration of the huge numbers of victims from one of many cities in Europe.
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The memorial runs along the full length of the platform on both sides of the tracks
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Trees have grown on the tracks, presumably to prevent more trains from ever reaching the platform.
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Grunewald S-Bahn station as it is today.
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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
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Memorial under snow, with the Reichstag in the background.
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Walking through the memorial. Underneath, the memorial's design is echoed in a museum that details this terrible history.