Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof, deportations (#2834)

"Commemoration of the deportations to Theresienstadt”. A plaque describing in detail the Nazi deportation of Jewish citizens, primarily older people, from Anhalter Bahnhof; the plaque includes a list of the 160 convoys from this station and the number of people on each convoy and that each of the 9,600 deportees (from this station) wore the prominent yellow star on their clothes. "

It was just the sort of detail provided on this poster that made me aware of the level of bureaucracy and visibility involved in the extermination of Jews (and others) during the Nazi era, and thus the level of involvement and awareness of the general population.

Considering the commonality of humanity across ages, it leaves one wondering what it would take to return to such a condition. Clearly the Bosnian genocide indicates such possibilities, as does my own childhood in the U.S. South when public, and celebratory, lynching of blacks was common in my parent's young adult years.

As the poster acknowledges, Theresienstadt (in the Czech Republic) was just a stopover, with most deportees sent further east to concentration or extermination camps. Possibly Carl Jachmann (see photo #0105) was deported from this site.

I was impressed by the extent Berlin described and acknowledged its past in such plaques; the plaque is readable in the larger version of the picture.