Holocaust train honors child victims
May 9, 2008
WARSAW, Poland -- A train exhibition honoring Jewish children sent to death camps by the Nazis opened Thursday at a station near the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
Organizers said the train drew 225,000 visitors during its six-month journey across Germany to the Oswiecim train station in Poland.
The train's exhibit includes letters, photographs and documents tracing the fate of children deported during World War II. More than 1 million people, mostly Jews, died at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex.
A grass-roots group of German citizens organized the exhibit as a reminder of the Nazi-era German railway, the Reichsbahn, used to deport Jews to death camps.
