# Gedenkstätte Großmarkthalle

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The Gedenkstätte Großmarkthalle in Frankfurt commemorates the deportation of Jewish people during the Holocaust. The Gestapo used the Großmarkthalle cellar as a collection point.

Deportation trains carried Jewish people from Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main area towards ghettos, concentration camps, and extermination camps. The railway tracks remain part of the setting.

Preserved cellar fragments, the ramp area, and tracks connect with a concrete path beside the railway embankment. The memorial occupies a site beside the railway embankment.

Quotations from victims and survivors appear on floors and walls, creating a chronological account of the deportations. The inscriptions follow the deportations in historical sequence.

The design excludes perpetrators’ quotations and centres words from victims and survivors. This history remains physically present within Frankfurt’s urban landscape.

The site links the former cellar, ramp, and railway landscape through restrained architectural elements. The concrete path marks this connection across the site.

Together, these preserved structures and inscriptions place Frankfurt’s deportation history within a visible, carefully shaped memorial. The Gedenkstätte Großmarkthalle holds remembrance in place within Frankfurt.

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## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GedenksttteGromarkthalle_6749fb978c3d1fed504f512a_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gedenkstaette-Deportation-juedischer-Menschen-in-der-Grossmarkthalle-2015-Ffm-443.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GedenksttteGromarkthalle_6749fb978c3d1fed504f512a_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erinnerungsstätte-Großmarkthalle-Frankfurt-2015-Ffm-458.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GedenksttteGromarkthalle_6749fb978c3d1fed504f512a_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grossmarkthalle-ffm-gedenktafek-001.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GedenksttteGromarkthalle_6749fb978c3d1fed504f512a_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erinnerungsstaette_Grossmarkthalle_Frankfurt.Foto-Norbert_Miguletz1.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GedenksttteGromarkthalle_6749fb978c3d1fed504f512a_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erinnerungsstaette_Grossmarkthalle_Frankfurt.Foto-Norbert_Miguletz2.jpg)

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