In the 1930s, a nursing home of the Jewish community was located behind the Haus der Gesundheit. Within eight months, more than a thousand elderly Jewish citizens were interned there before being forced into labour and deported to extermination camps. The Hebrew letter Chai, meaning “life,” is set into the ground – as a tribute to the oppressed and murdered, and as a reminder of the loss of human and cultural richness in Berlin at that time.
