TRAIN OF COMMEMORATION TO AUSCHWITZ

Frankfurt, Germany (The Week)
Train to Auschwitz: A mobile exhibition dedicated to the children deported by the Nazis has begun a six-month journey through Germany and Poland. The Train of Commemoration carries photos, letters, and other documents related to the 1.5 million children who were transported by the Reichsbahn, the national railway, to concentration camps during the Holocaust. It will visit 30 cities before winding up at Auschwitz. The museum train is a way for Deutsche Bahn, the successor company to the Reichsbahn, to reflect on its complicity in the Holocaust. Deutsche Bahn director Hartmut Mehdorn rejected a proposal to install exhibits in train stations. "The subject is far too serious for people to engage with it while chewing on a sandwich and rushing to catch a train," he said.