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Train commemorating Holocaust children arrives at Auschwitz By The Associated Press Tags: Auschwitz, Holocaust, germany  WARSAW - A train exhibition honoring Jewish children sent to death camps by the Nazis opened Thursday at a station near the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where it arrived after six-month trip across neighboring Germany. Advertisement Organizers said the Train of Commemoration had attracted 225,000 visitors during its six-month journey to the Oswiecim train station in Poland. The train has been winding its way across Germany since November, with its steam engine pulling several cars that carry the exhibit - including letters, photographs and documents - tracing the fates of individual children deported during World War II. With about 60 young Germans on board, the train arrived late Wednesday at the station from its last stop in the border town of Goerlitz. In all, it visited 62 German train stations, including weeklong stops at several spots in Berlin, organizers said. On Friday night the train returns to Germany. A grass-roots group of German citizens organized the exhibit as a reminder that the Nazi-era German railway, the Reichsbahn, was used to deport Jewish families to death camps. The Nazis built the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex in occupied Poland in 1940. More than 1 million people, mostly Jews, died there before Soviet troops liberated it in January 1945. The train's arrival there has a strong symbolic significance, Auschwitz museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt said. "It was here that the Germans deported the Jews and other nationals," he said. Now young Germans come here to honor the victims and to show that the new generation remembers. Though the exhibition was in German, Mensfelt said, "the pictures of the children speak for themselves." On Thursday exhibit organizers and museum officials marched more than a mile (1.5 kilometers) from the station to the ramp - called Altejudenramp - where the Nazis selected which prisoners would be sent to gas chambers and which would be forced to work. More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   Nakba protest World Likud chief calls for cancellation of Nakba Day procession. Perfect match TA court sentences 'DNA Rapist' to 25 years in prison.

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