Two Deportation Monuments

Once I realized that I would not have much time left to spend in the two monuments in Brandenburg an der Havel (because it's about a 90 minutes' journey to get there), I decided to go there on Saturday, when they open at 10.00 (instead of 13.00)  until 17.00. Instead, I visited two monuments that I had missed earlier.

The Gedenktafel Quitzowstrasse is part of the memorial at the Moab freight train station, where I started my day on Saturday. 

From there, I walked about 1 km to the statue on the Puetlitzbridge, which is connected to the Moabit memorial. The statue was vandalized in the 1990s. When I saw pictures of it before, I thought the statue represents books, but no, as the text (slightly difficult to read, but I was able to enlarge the picture on my cellphone) on the memorial explains: 

"Steps

that are no

                        steps

anymore.

                        A stairs

that is no stairs anymore

taken apart

Symbol of the way

that wasn't a way anymore

for those

who had to go

their last way

on 

freight platforms

rails

steps

and stairs.

From the Puetlitzstrasse Railway Station

in the years 1941-1944

tens of thousands of Jewish fellow citizens of Berlin

were deported to extermination camps

and 

            murdered."