Jan 26, 2007 5:52 pm US/Eastern
Historical Relic From Holocaust Era Arrives
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PORT EVERGLADES (CBS4) ―
A 1942 World War II railcar, from Gydnia, Poland, one of eight in the world, arrived in Port Everglades on Friday, where it will be added to a Holocaust museum exhibit in Hollywood.
This car – unaltered from its original condition – will represent for the museum and its on going education to the community – a glimpse at the railcars used by Germany when it transported millions of Jews in Europe to concentration camps and others to their deaths.
More than three-million Jewish people were taken to their deaths by train. More than 30,000 railcars were used for that purpose, and most trains had up to 50 cars each, with each car holding anywhere from 50 to 200 people depending on where they were in use. Trips sometimes took days to complete, and people died en route to the camps. In winter, people were exposed to freezing temperatures; in summer, they endured suffocating heat.
The Holocaust Documentation And Education Center, Inc., which acquired this artifact, as a reminder of the Holocaust, will unveil it to the public on Feb. 13 before it becomes a permanent exhibit at the southwest corner of South 21st Avenue and Harrison Street, just ½ block from the new South Florida Holocaust Museum which will open next year to the public.
The center will have a preview of this exhibition on Jan. 26th, which will be the of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by allied forces in 1945.
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