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Gayle & I visited this memorial last month, July, 2013, and were deeply moved. There were hundreds of metal plates laid side by side, each bearing a date between 1941 and 1945 with the inscription: [Date] / [Number transported on that date] Juden / Berlin - Treblinka (or Auschwitz or ...), so many of these plates laid on two levels. The number of Jews transported during the earlier days was typically 50-75, but after Auschwitz opened the daily numbers grew into the hundreds, then thousands. At first I was plucking small stones from the railroad bed and placing one on each plate, but there were so many and I soon grew fatigued. As I walked along, and the daily numbers grew, I resumed placing stones, but there were so many, and over the ones with larger numbers I could only stand and weep. There were so many. Sir9bob (talk) 00:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)Bob