Zug der Erinnerung

Yesterday, Rebecca and I went to visit a traveling exhibition created to commemorate, remember and honor the children and young people who were deported to the concentration camps during the Second World War. Thousands of children (some people even estimate the number to be over one million) died in the concentration camps, simply because they were either Jewish, Gypsies, Roma or had parents that fought against the Nazis.

The exhibition took place in a train, similar to one used at the time, but not original (thank goodness for that). Inside the wagons, you could read the story of the lives of some of the children that lost their lives between 1939-1945.

It was a really interesting exhibition, one that has been seen by more than 40 000 people up to know. The train is visiting cities all around Germany, and will be heading to Poland afterwards.