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Germany's wartime memorial train has arrived in Berlin, on its nationwide journey to highlight the plight of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. The train will visit all the capital's stations, including Grunewald, whose infamous Platform 17 was where some 50,000 Berlin Jews began their journey to the death camps.
Herbert Schenkmann survived the Holocaust. He was transported four times by rail to different concentration camps, and said the exhibition is vital because so many Germans still need to come to terms with their past, EuroNews reports.
The mobile exhibition began its journey across Germany in November. It will visit more towns and cities, before ending its voyage at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland by May 8th, the anniversary of the end of the war.
Some six million Jews died in the Holocaust, but the Nazis persecuted many more people. Including Roma gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Poles and other Slavic people, the disabled, and homosexual men, the total may be as high as eleven million.
// 14.04.2008 13:29
News URL: http://news.mediaport.info/eng/world/2008/4037.shtml
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