New Yorkers have witnessed the arrival of a remnant of the Holocaust: a vintage German train car like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other death camps.
In this undated photo provided by Musealia Entertainment SL, a barrack from Auschwitz III-Monowitz labor camp is shown on exhibit in Madrid, Spain. The barrack is among hundreds of artifacts from Auschwitz that will go on display at New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 8, 2019. The exhibit, entitled "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away," includes a rail car like the ones used to transport prisoners to the camp and runs through Jan. 3, 2020.
German-made freight wagons like the one in the exhibit were used to deport people from their homes all around Europe. About 1 million Jews and nearly 100,000 others were gassed, shot, hanged or starved in Auschwitz out of a total of 6 million who perished in the Holocaust. She and her sister had been forced to board the train in August 1944 in occupied Poland, after their parents died in the Lodz ghetto where Jews were held captive."We believed them, and we schlepped everything we could carry," she said. "We still had great hope."
On display will be concrete posts from an Auschwitz fence covered in barbed and electrified wires; a gas mask used by the SS; a desk belonging to Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss; and a dagger and helmet used by Heinrich Himmler, the chief architect of Hitler's "final solution." "The dark, smelly car represents that moment of transition from the world of the living that people understood and trusted to the radically alien world of the camps where the doors opened and families were separated forever," said van Pelt, whose relatives in Amsterdam lived down the street from Anne Frank's family.
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