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The Florida Holocaust Museum: History, Heritage and Hope Permanent Exhibition

Boxcar #113 069-5

The Florida Holocaust Museum is home to one of the few remaining railroad boxcars of the type used by the Nazis to transport Jews and other prisoners to places like Auschwitz and Treblinka. Boxcar #113 069-5 now rests on original tracks from the Treblinka killing center as a silent tribute to those who perished in the Holocaust and is featured as part of the History, Heritage and Hope permanent exhibition.

Boxcars of the type displayed at the museum were the place of death for many during the Holocaust. The bare freight cars often became a suffocation chamber for some of the people who were squeezed into it, sometimes more than 100. Those who survived the trip had to endure the journey under conditions of hunger and thirst, extreme overcrowding, and horrible sanitation.


Sam Gross recalls his family's deportation from the Mukacevo ghetto in Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz:

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