There we were in that train, over a hundred people,"
"There we were in that train, over a hundred people," Holocaust survivor Leo Schneiderman remembered about his deportation from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in August 1944. "The only facility in the train was two buckets for over a hundred men, women, and children. ... It was unbearable hot. Lack of air." The Germans and their allies and collaborators used the European rail network to deport Jews from Germany and German-occupied Europe to ghettos, concentration camps, and killing centers. #OnThisDay 34 years ago, the German railcar on our third floor became the first artifact to be installed in the Museum. Because of its immense size and weight, moving it into the Museum through any kind of door was impossible. So it had to be lowered in by crane during construction. Leo was liberated in May 1945. #Holocaust #OTD #History #WWII less
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