Marburg Station Building

Three Jewish transports by train departed from Marburg, each time with the city's main station as the departure point and a collection camp in Kassel as a stopover. The first 43 Jews from Marburg were transported on December 8, 1941, to the Riga ghetto. Only one person from this transport survived the war. The second transport departed on May 31, 1942, destined for the Sobibor extermination camp. None of the 28 deportees survived. The third and final transport of Jews left the city on September 6, 1942, for the Theresienstadt ghetto. Of the 43 deportees, 5 survived. Only two Jews, who were exempt from transport due to their marriage to an Aryan, remained in Marburg.

Simultaneously with the Jews from the city of Marburg, a total of 154 Jews from the Marburg district were deported, most of whom were also murdered. Furthermore, in March 1943, 80 Sinti were also transported from Marburg to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where most perished.

The station building suffered heavy damage during the war but was later restored. In 2015, during the station's renovation, silver-coloured plates were installed on the walls along the stairs to platforms 5 and 8, bearing the names in black of 349 Jews and Sinti who were deported from the city.

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