Hamburg unveils memorial to Jews, Roma killed in Holocaust

Plaque lists names of thousands who were deported from train station to death camps between 1939 and 1945

By AP 10 May 2017, 6:33 pm

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People place white roses on a memorial that was unveiled in the German port city of Hamburg to Jewish and Roma residents who were killed during the Nazi Holocaust, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

BERLIN, Germany — The German city of Hamburg has unveiled a memorial to Jewish and Roma residents who were killed during the Holocaust.

The site of the memorial is a former train station, from where 8,071 people were deported on 20 trains to ghettos and concentration camps. The deportations took place from 1940 to 1945. Few survived.

A plaque lists the names of more than 7,700 identified victims. The memorial also includes a piece of the original tracks and a special path leading to a nearby documentation center that is slated to open in 2020.

Hamburg’s mayor, Olaf Schulz, said during the opening ceremony Wednesday that the location “is a place of shame and grief, but from now on also a dignified place of remembrance,” the German news agency dpa reported.