Holocaust Commemoration Train
Tours Germany
There Will Be Four Boxcars Full
Of Exhibits
They Carried Millions To Their
Deaths
Today's 2000 Mile Trip Across Germany
It Is Dedicated To The 1.5
Million Children Gassed
Hundreds Stuff In One Car
"Schnell Schnell, Rouse Rouse"
Screamed The Homicidal Nazis
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German Jews Tour The Country
The "Train of Commemoration"
is made up of a vintage 1921 locomotive and four train cars holding
commemorative items, such as maps, chronologies, letters, laws and
regulations, and other official documents related to the railway's role
in transporting children from across Europe to their deaths. It will
stop in over 30 cities as it winds along its 3,000-kilometer
(1,864-mile) route through mostly southern German towns.
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A Train Of Memories
This 1921 steam engine will take a six month journey starting in
Berlin and ending at Auschwitz.
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Thirty German Towns
It's route will stop at thirty towns.
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Boxcars Full Of Memories
The camps, the dogs barking, the chimneys spewing smoke.
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Mengele Waiting
He especially like children, whether it was sewing them together to
make Siamese twins, or injecting blue dye into their eyes.
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School Children
Every place the train stops the local schools will send students.
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Survivors Will Lecture
Holocaust survivors like Abe Bladderstein will talk at the schools.
Here he describes how Nazis would choke children for sport.
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Just Sixty Years Ago
These young Germans grandparents were dropping Zyklon-B on 1.5
million Jewish children.
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The Organizer
Hans-Ruediger Minow, head
of the train organizing committee, is irate because the German
National Railway won't pay for the tour.
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Hanni Kawinski Will Never Forget
Hanni and her older sister were just five years old when Nazis took
them from a Dutch orphanage and sent them to Sobibor. Her sister was
gassed but Hanni survived.
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