HOLOCAUST RAIL CAR

The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, the City of Hollywood, and the Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency unveiled the authentic rail car from Poland on February 13, 2007.

The Holocaust rail car from Poland is one of the type used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to transport millions of Jews to concentration camps and their untimely deaths.

The rail car, destined to become a vital part of the education experience at the first South Florida Holocaust Museum, will be permanently installed in the new museum.

The rail car is a powerful visual tool in the Center's mission to demonstrate the loss of dignity and freedom during the reign of the Nazi regime.

The car will remain in its "war transportation" state and will receive only minor treatments for preservation and visitor safety.

Few of these rail cars have survived. Other similar rail cars may be found at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in museums in Dallas, Houston, Chicago, and in Whitwell, Tennessee, as well as in Yad Vashem, Israel's National Museum.

For more information about the rail car, please contact Rositta E. Kenigsberg at (954) 929-5690 or email info@hdec.org.


See before and after photos of the rail car restoration.

Before restoration and preservation

After restoration and preservation