Grosse Hamburger Strasse could easily be called the “Street of Tolerance and of Death”

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Jag är fortfarande kvar i Berlin – åtminstone delar av mig har svårt att släppa stämningen från Grosse Hamburgerstrasse.

For those who survived the Holocaust in Berlin, Grosse Hamburger Strasse remained a synonym for deportation and death, until the aforementioned Jewish school was reopened there in 1993. A bombing raid destroyed the home for the aged during the last days of the war, in 1945. A memorial serves as a reminder of the unfathomable events of those years. In 1985, a sculptural group of figures by Will Lammert was installed next to the memorial stone. The sculpture was originally intended for the Ravensbrück camp memorial.

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