The Grosse Hamburger Strasse, also Große Hamburger Straße, located in the Mitte district of Berlin, has been an important site for Jewish Berliners. There was a school for boys, an old age home, and a cemetery operated by the Jewish community before World War II. The area, used as a deportation site during the National Socialist Nazi regime of World War II, was destroyed during the war. Since then, the cemetery was restored and there is a school for boys again. A green area is a memorial to the Holocaust, with sculptures, a memorial stone, and plaques. It has been given monumental protection.