The first transport left shortly after midnight on 17 October 1941. Between 1941 and 17 June 1943, a further six deportation trains left Luxembourg. A total of 658 Jews were deported to ghettos and death camps in Eastern Europe. The commemorative plaque remembers the victims of the Nazi regime and it can be found inside the train station.
The memorial plaque was unveiled by the Grand Duke Henri, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Fernand Etgen and the Prime Minister Xavier Bettel in the glass passage of the railway station in October 2020.
In your opinion, why is it important to commemorate the Jewish victims of the Holocaust right on this spot, at the railway station?