Originally shared by Guido Billstein Central Station, Hamburg: One Too Often Overlooked Memorial Plaque (Hamburg, July 2016) At the North Side of Hamburg's central train station you can find this bronze memorial plaque which looks quite unimposing. Hundeds if not a thousand or so of people walk by every day without taking notice. This is what it says: "From the nearby former Hanover Station..." (which was torn down in the 1950ies) "... between October 1941 and February 1945 by order of the National Socialist State executed by State and security police transported by German State Railway nearly six thousand people in 17 trains were deported to concentation camps in: LODZ, MINSK, RIGA, AUSCHWITZ, THERESIENSTADT. Just because they were Jews or were perceived as being Jewish nearly all of them were tortured and killed as victims of racial fanaticism Please contribute in taking care to ensure that something like this will not happen again!" German-Jewish Society H
