The Deportation Monument on the Putlitz Bridge, a Holocaust memorial for Jews sent to concentration and death camps, was vandalized on Tuesday evening in the latest defacement of the site.
The memorial for Berlin Jews deported from the Moabit station during the Holocaust was defaced with several graffiti tags, according to the Berlin Police.
The memorial for the 32,000 deported Jews has faced repeated vandalism since its creation, with it being splashed with white paint and covered in parcel tape in August. In November 2024, Berlin Police said that a memorial wreath laid at the site had been thrown over the railway railing and that candles had been destroyed. According to the Center for Jewish Art, the memorial was damaged by a bomb in 1992 and was restored the following year.
The deportation memorial's defacement is also the latest in a series of recent antisemitic vandalism incidents in the German capital.
Berlin faces a series of antisemitic graffiti incidents
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was discovered vandalized last Tuesday morning, according to the Berlin Police and the German Holocaust Memorial's caretaking organization.
A stele at the Berlin memorial was discovered covered in green graffiti containing "inflammatory content."
On April 26, in the Berlin-Pankow borough, several instances of antisemitic graffiti on apartment buildings were discovered, according to Berlin Police.
"Kill all Jews" was painted on one wall, according to a photograph published by Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor. According to Judische Allgemeine, Jewish community members also saw a graffiti swastika and the statement "Only a dead Jew is a good Jew."
Mathilda Heller contributed to this report.