Special trains

Last month, I went to the open day of the Digital Media Klasse at the UDK, Berlin. Was good fun, though i was mad enough to attend the students' presentation of their projects. In german. And my knowledge of the language is rather unsophisticated. Anyway, there were images, videos and people doing gestures.

Here's one of the projects I saw. And liked.

About Theresienstadt

Berlin train stations Grunewald and Westhafen were used by the Nazis-Regime as stations from where Jews and others were deported to ghettos and concentration camps. Both have memorial sites but as they are located rather far away from the city center, only interested people have heard about the memorials and visit them.

The aim of the Sonderzüge project is to create sensational moments in order to evoke a concioussness of the history of deportations and of the existant memorial sites.

S-Bahn trains in Berlin have LED-displays to announce their destination and following stop(s). In a singular moment the displays on those trains either heading to Grunewald or those passing Westhafen would announce names of those ghettos and concentration camps the Nazi's deportation trains were destined to go to.

By Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green and Richard The.

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