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General map of deportation routes and camps. Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.
The green ticket roundup (French: rafle du billet vert ), also known as the green card roundup, [a] took place on 14 May 1941 during the Nazi occupation of France.The mass arrest started a day after French Police delivered a green card (billet vert) to 6694 foreign Jews living in Paris, instructing them to report for a "status check".
Coming from the Buchenwald concentration camp, a train with 54 freight cars [1] arrived at Nammering station on 19 April 1945 after a twelve-day journey. During the five-day stay, 794 prisoners lost their lives here. They had been starved to death, killed or shot.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between ...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) [3] is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
The veteran’s son, Jerry Murad Jr., 58, also a Fort Worth attorney, said his father had mentioned to him that he had witnessed a concentration camp, but little more.
On 19 April 1943, members of the Belgian Resistance stopped a Holocaust train and freed a number of Jews who were being transported to Auschwitz concentration camp from Mechelen transit camp in Belgium, on the twentieth convoy from the camp. In the aftermath of the attack, a number of other captives were able to jump from the train as well.
While concentration camps had been in existence in Germany for some time, in September 1941, no death camps had been constructed. [3] The destinations for these trains were instead to be several ghettos in which the Nazis had confined the Jews of Eastern Europe, whom they called the Ostjuden .