Central Station, Hamburg: One Too Often Overlooked Memorial Plaque (Hamburg, July 2016)

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 Hamburg
October 1993