RAILWAY TO ETERNITY
With an approximate death toll of 960.000 Jewish men, women and children, the Auschwitz concentration camp marks the darkest site of the Holocaust.
In Berlin, the Grunewald station was one of the places for the deportation trains to leave for Auschwitz – a passage of about 570 kilometres. With roughly 1700 wooden sleepers per railway kilometre that distance leads to an extremely inconceivable analogy: around 960.000 wooden sleepers along the atrocious journey.
This weathered railway sleeper, the ballast and the 0/1 milestone are forgotten remains from the abandoned wasteland of the first 100 metres of the Grunewald track. The bricks – in sharp contrast – were once sheltering the biggest Jewish cemetery in Berlin, but have been discarded during recent restoration works.
An eternal Menorah to commemorate one man’s cruel fate as an example of his entire people.
Dimensions: 200 x 280 x 80 cm
Material: wood, gravel, brick, concrete, steel
Year: 2016
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