‘Platform 17’: Arson attack on memorial to deported Jews in Berlin
The monument, a "reminder of the systematic violence against Jewish people," has been attacked, as part of a rise in antisemitism across Germany. A man set fire to a box of books on Nazism in Grunewald station, Berlin, this weekend. The memorial was dedicated to the Jews deported by the Nazis. ADVERTISEMENT The monument is known as "Platform 17", where 50,000 German Jews were deported to Nazi…