Track 17 is part of the former freight yard at Grunewald station. Beginning on October 18, 1941 Jews were deported east from this station- conveniently located close to the homes of a major jewish community.Plaques at the plattform's edge list the numbers, dates and destinations of deportations.
Nature has begun to claim parts of the memorial- they let it be, enforcing the idea that not a single train should ever leave this plattform again