Anti-Semitic attack: Bookboxx at Grunewalder S-Bahnhof in flames

Von NAG Redaktion

Schweres antisemitisches Attentat zerstört „BücherboXX am Gleis 17“ Eine Brandstiftung, die von Konrad Kutt als „schweres antisemitisches Attentat“ bezeichnet wurde, hat am Sonnabend die „BücherboXX am Gleis 17“ auf dem Vorplatz des S-Bahnhofs Grunewald zerstört. Der Staatsschutz des Landeskriminalamts Berlin ermittelt aufgrund des Verdachts judenfeindlicher Motive. Bei den verbrannten Büchern handelte es sich größtenteils um Literatur über die Verfolgung, Deportation und Ermordung vieler Berliner Juden in der Nazizeit. Zeugen beobachteten frühmorgens zwischen 4 und 5 Uhr, wie ein Mann eine Kiste in die BücherboXX stellte und anzündete, berichtete die Polizei. Der Täter hinterließ laut Konrad Kutt ein „krauses, aber eindeutiges“ …
Heavy anti-Semitic assassination destroyed "Book Boxx am Gleis 17" An arson, which Konrad Kutt referred to as "severe anti-Semitic attack", destroyed the "Book Boxx am Gleis 17" on the forecourt of the S-Bahn station in Grunewald on Saturday. The state protection of the Berlin State Criminal Police Office investigates motives for Jewish motives due to the suspicion. The burned books were mostly literature on the persecution, deportation and murder of many Berlin Jews in the Nazi era. Witnesses observed early in the morning between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. how a man put a box in the book boxx and lit, the police reported. According to Konrad Kutt, the perpetrator left a "frizzy but clear" ... (Symbolbild/MB)

Heavy anti -Semitic assassination destroyed "Book Boxx am Gleis 17"

Approximately designated by Konrad Kutt as a "severe anti-Semitic assassination attempt", destroyed the "Book Boxx am Gleis 17" on the forecourt of the Grunewald S-Bahn station on Saturday. The state protection of the Berlin State Criminal Police Office investigates motives for Jewish motives due to the suspicion. The burned books were mostly literature on the persecution, deportation and murder of many Berlin Jews in the Nazi era.

Witnesses observed early in the morning between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. how a man put a box in the book boxx and lit, the police reported. According to Konrad Kutt, the perpetrator left a "frizzy but clear" right -wing extremist confession.

Konrad Kutt had 19 outdated telephone booths in Berlin and in Polish Poznan transformed for free book exchange into “sustainable book boxing”. His project, which started 14 years ago, is considered pioneering for further initiatives in which telephone booths were converted into street libraries. The spelling with the two capital letters XX was introduced by Kutt. In 2019 he received the citizens' medal of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district for his services.

The destruction of the book boxx at Grunewald station is particularly tragic due to its proximity to the memorial "Gleis 17". The memorial is reminiscent of the place where many thousands of Berlin Jews were deported into concentration and extermination camps during the Nazi era. The book boxx was dedicated to this topic and, in addition to literature, also contained an audio device that reads from books could be used, for example.

The walls of the book boxx were decorated with the lettering "Gleis 17" and Hebrew characters. It is not yet foreseeable whether and how the box can be replaced by a new one.

Unfortunately, it is not the first time that the memorial was desired. Already last June, the police found "notches and color abrasion" on the metallic plaque. In addition, a Davidstern and the lettering "Israel" had been scratched into the stone wall.