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.
Polish Jews being loaded onto trains at Umschlagplatz of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. The site is preserved today as a Polish national monument.
Jews are deported from Würzburg, 25 April 1942. Deportation occurred in public and was witnessed by many Germans.
The "Gate of Death" at Auschwitz-Birkenau was built in 1943.
German-made DRB Class 52 steam locomotive used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn during World War II. Members of this class were used in the Holocaust.
The Deutsche Reichsbahn, also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regional railways of the individual states of the German Empire. The Deutsche Reichsbahn has been described as "the largest enterprise in the capitalist world in the years between 1920 and 1932"; nevertheless, its importance "arises primarily from the fact that the Reichsbahn was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in German history".
A DRG conductor in 1928 complete with rank insignia
1938 military ticket from Rendsburg to Königsberg (Pr.)
WWII Reichsbahn military marked railwayman's carbide burner lantern (c. 1942)
The wagon monument, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
