A vintage 1921 locomotive train hauling four carriages arrived in Berlin Ostbahnhof station earlier this week, its cargo not passengers but rather haunting images and poignant last letters of the child victims of the Holocaust.
'The Train of Commemoration' left Frankfurt Station in November 2007 on a six month journey that will eventually take it to thirty German cities before arriving in Auschwitz, the death camp established by the Nazis in Poland, for the 63rd anniversary of VE day.
An estimated 1. 5 million children were transported by the former German state railway, the Reichsbahn, to the concentration camps where fewer than 10 per cent survived.... |