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Platform 17 Memorial
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Dianasee
14193 Berlin, Germany
Koenigssee
14193 Berlin, Germany
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Koenigsallee 20, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Herthasee
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Hundekehlesee
14193 Berlin, Germany
Forest Museum with Forest School
Königsweg 4, 14193 Berlin, Germany
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Restaurant Scheune
Eichkampstraße 155, 14055 Berlin, Germany
Sarajevo Inn Grunewald
Eichkampstraße 153, 14055 Berlin, Germany
Casetta Croccante
Am Bahnhof Grunewald 1-4, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Taverna Inos
Eichkampstraße 156, 14055 Berlin, Germany
Wiener Conditorei Caffeehaus
Hagenpl. 3, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Ristorante Capriccio
Hagenpl. 2, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Fayna Ukraina Restaurant | Файна Україна | Файна Украина
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ST. MICHAELS
Bismarckallee 23, 14193 Berlin, Germany
Johannische Dienstleistungen GmbH
Bismarckallee 23, 14193 Berlin, Germany
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St.-Michaels-Heim Jugendgästehaus & Hotel
Bismarckallee 23, 14193 Berlin, Germany
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Platform 17 Memorial

Am Bahnhof Grunewald, 14193 Berlin, Germany
4.6(536)
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attractions: Dianasee, Koenigssee, Villa Walther, Herthasee, Hundekehlesee, Forest Museum with Forest School, restaurants: Restaurant Scheune, Sarajevo Inn Grunewald, Casetta Croccante, Taverna Inos, Wiener Conditorei Caffeehaus, Ristorante Capriccio, Fayna Ukraina Restaurant | Файна Україна | Файна Украина, ST. MICHAELS, Johannische Dienstleistungen GmbH
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Nearby attractions of Platform 17 Memorial

Dianasee

Koenigssee

Villa Walther

Herthasee

Hundekehlesee

Forest Museum with Forest School

Dianasee

Dianasee

4.3

(13)

Open 24 hours
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Koenigssee

Koenigssee

4.4

(20)

Open 24 hours
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Villa Walther

Villa Walther

4.5

(23)

Open 24 hours
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Herthasee

Herthasee

4.1

(16)

Open 24 hours
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Things to do nearby

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10785, Berlin, Germany
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Laughing Spree - English comedy show on a boat
Laughing Spree - English comedy show on a boat
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Learn to DJ in Berlins Clubbing District
Learn to DJ in Berlins Clubbing District
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Nearby restaurants of Platform 17 Memorial

Restaurant Scheune

Sarajevo Inn Grunewald

Casetta Croccante

Taverna Inos

Wiener Conditorei Caffeehaus

Ristorante Capriccio

Fayna Ukraina Restaurant | Файна Україна | Файна Украина

ST. MICHAELS

Johannische Dienstleistungen GmbH

Restaurant Scheune

Restaurant Scheune

4.4

(1.1K)

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Sarajevo Inn Grunewald

Sarajevo Inn Grunewald

4.3

(693)

$$

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Casetta Croccante

Casetta Croccante

4.5

(101)

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Taverna Inos

Taverna Inos

4.8

(307)

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Reviews of Platform 17 Memorial

4.6
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5.0
7y

This memorial shows so well the story of the Jews in Europe cities in the Holocaust. When arriving you first see a normal train station. You turn to the memorial and then see abandoned train platform. While walking along the rail, you can see each transportation details - the date, number of Jews that been transported and lastly the destination. First, you can see the transportation to the getthos in the east - on a daily basis except weekends 100 Jews a day, sometimes less sometimes more (someone died in the process or kids been born). Then, one day (as the picture shows) the transportation to the death camps began. 1000 and more Jews a day, until no Jews left in Berlin, and less than 100 were send a day to the death camps. A must seen Holocaust memorial if you...

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5.0
6y

Mahnmal Gleis 17 Stillgelegtes Gleis am Bahnhof Grunewald erinnert an Opfer der Nazizeit

Täglich rollen unzählige S-Bahn-Züge zwischen Potsdam und Berlin durch den Bahnhof Grunewald und befördern tausende Menschen in beide Richtungen. Nur wenige wissen, dass von diesem Bahnhof 50.000 deutsche Juden deportiert wurden. Der erste Deportationszug verließ den Bahnhof Grunewald am 18. Oktober 1941 mit 1.013 Juden. Danach begann die systematische Deportation der Juden aus Berlin. Bis April 1942 fuhren die Züge hauptsächlich in die osteuropäischen Ghettos nach Litzmannstadt, Riga und Warschau. Ab Ende 1942 waren fast nur noch das Vernichtungslager Auschwitz-Birkenau und das Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt das Fahrtziel. Allein in die „Todesfabrik Auschwitz“ fuhren etwa 35 Züge mit 17.000 Juden vom Bahnhof Grunewald ab.

Die Rolle, die die Deutsche Reichsbahn im Holocaust spielte, blieb lange unbeantwortet. Erst ab den 1980er Jahren wurden in Erinnerung an dieses Kapitel der deutschen Geschichte Mahnmale errichtet. Das Mahnmal „Gleis 17“ am Bahnhof Grunewald erinnert an die Opfer, die von diesem Gleis mit Zügen der Deutschen Reichsbahn aus Berlin deportiert wurden. Seit 1991 steht an der Rampe zum Güterbahnhof eine Betonmauer mit Negativabdrücken menschlicher Körper. Das vom polnischen Künstler Karol Broniatowski geschaffene Mahnmal soll an die langen Wege und Märsche zu den Deportationsbahnhöfen erinnern.

Am Gleis 17 sind 186 Stahlgussplatten in den Bahnschotter eingelassen und zeigen in chronologischer Reinfolge Datum, Anzahl der deportierten Juden und deren Bestimmungsort. Bestandteil des Mahnmals ist auch die Vegetation, die sich zwischen den Schienen verbreitet hat. Sie soll uns daran erinnern, das von diesem Gleis nie wieder ein Zug den Bahnhof verlassen wird.

Die Deutsche Bahn hofft, dass das Mahnmal mit dazu beiträgt, dass die Verbrechen während der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft nicht vergessen werden. Das Mahnmal ist ein Ort der Erinnerung, der Mahnung und des Gedenkens. Regelmäßig finden hier Gedenk- und Erinnerungsveranstaltungen statt. Gleis 17 ist öffentlich zugänglich und über den S-Bahnhof Berlin Grunewald zu erreichen. Text und Fotos:...

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5.0
19w

You can access the platform by walking past the entrance to the train station, through the leafy spot all the way to the back. You'll pass the monument on your left by Karol Broniatowski which intuitively connects you with the Jews deported from there. The platform itself is quite long but surprisingly narrow, especially once you read the numbers engraved onto the metal slabs, representing amounts of people that were sent to their deaths. It was a very sobering experience, walking down the exact same platform, reading those numbers and destinations, connecting with the terror and fear they must have felt. We'd better learn from the past and never allow such atrocity to...

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idan taloridan talor
This memorial shows so well the story of the Jews in Europe cities in the Holocaust. When arriving you first see a normal train station. You turn to the memorial and then see abandoned train platform. While walking along the rail, you can see each transportation details - the date, number of Jews that been transported and lastly the destination. First, you can see the transportation to the getthos in the east - on a daily basis except weekends 100 Jews a day, sometimes less sometimes more (someone died in the process or kids been born). Then, one day (as the picture shows) the transportation to the death camps began. 1000 and more Jews a day, until no Jews left in Berlin, and less than 100 were send a day to the death camps. A must seen Holocaust memorial if you visit Berlin.
Magdalena ChaMagdalena Cha
You can access the platform by walking past the entrance to the train station, through the leafy spot all the way to the back. You'll pass the monument on your left by Karol Broniatowski which intuitively connects you with the Jews deported from there. The platform itself is quite long but surprisingly narrow, especially once you read the numbers engraved onto the metal slabs, representing amounts of people that were sent to their deaths. It was a very sobering experience, walking down the exact same platform, reading those numbers and destinations, connecting with the terror and fear they must have felt. We'd better learn from the past and never allow such atrocity to happen ever again.
Christian JensenChristian Jensen
Gleis 17 is a very simple place, but yet so strong. About 10 000 german jews were sent to the concentration and labor camps from this location. The platform as been decorated with 186 steel-cast plates embedded into the railway gravel. These plates list all the deportation trains from Berlin in chronological order with destinations and the number of Jews deported. The vegetation between the rails is overgrown, like a symbol that no train will ever leave this platform again. The memorial is open to the public and no entrance fee is required.
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This memorial shows so well the story of the Jews in Europe cities in the Holocaust. When arriving you first see a normal train station. You turn to the memorial and then see abandoned train platform. While walking along the rail, you can see each transportation details - the date, number of Jews that been transported and lastly the destination. First, you can see the transportation to the getthos in the east - on a daily basis except weekends 100 Jews a day, sometimes less sometimes more (someone died in the process or kids been born). Then, one day (as the picture shows) the transportation to the death camps began. 1000 and more Jews a day, until no Jews left in Berlin, and less than 100 were send a day to the death camps. A must seen Holocaust memorial if you visit Berlin.
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You can access the platform by walking past the entrance to the train station, through the leafy spot all the way to the back. You'll pass the monument on your left by Karol Broniatowski which intuitively connects you with the Jews deported from there. The platform itself is quite long but surprisingly narrow, especially once you read the numbers engraved onto the metal slabs, representing amounts of people that were sent to their deaths. It was a very sobering experience, walking down the exact same platform, reading those numbers and destinations, connecting with the terror and fear they must have felt. We'd better learn from the past and never allow such atrocity to happen ever again.
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Gleis 17 is a very simple place, but yet so strong. About 10 000 german jews were sent to the concentration and labor camps from this location. The platform as been decorated with 186 steel-cast plates embedded into the railway gravel. These plates list all the deportation trains from Berlin in chronological order with destinations and the number of Jews deported. The vegetation between the rails is overgrown, like a symbol that no train will ever leave this platform again. The memorial is open to the public and no entrance fee is required.
Christian Jensen

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