Memorials - Jewish Cemetery (Gr. Hamburger Str.) by yooperprof
"Gedenkstätte Grosse Hamburger Strasse." This is a quiet wooded park on the site of what had been a major cemetery for Berlin's Jewish community. The sculptural memorial is dedicated to the 55,000 Jews deported to concentration camps from this site in 1943. Designed by Will Lammert (1892-1957).Before the Nazi Era, Berlin had a famously large and flourishing Jewish community. The oldest Jewish cemetery in Berlin was on this street, and several other significant institutions were nearby: the "New" Synagogue, several schools, a home for the elderly. During the years of WWII, the cemetery was entirely desecrated, and the old-people's home served as the center for detaining and deporting the remaining Jews of the city.
