Boxcar Unique
Before the tour began, the students were directed into a meeting room where they were instructed in the use of the audio devices that would guide them through the exhibits. They were also presented with a series of recorded interviews from holocaust survivors as they detailed their experiences during the days and years encompassed within the holocaust. From there the students were broken into groups and led through three permanent exhibits. The permanent exhibits focus upon three separate events that occurred on April 19, 1943. This was the day in history that saw the 20th Deportation Train from Belgium was attacked by three young men who, after stopping the train, created enough diversion that allowed a number of Jewish prisoners to escape
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What made this boxcar unique was the extreme probability of it being used to transport thousands of the holocaust victims to concertation or extermination camps across Nazi Occupied Europe. It clearly demonstrated the bleak conditions faced by those caught up by the Nazi Party’s “purification” of the German people. After viewing the permanent exhibits, the students were privileged enough to participate in one of the various activities presented during the Dallas Public Library’s “Big D Reads” program. One of the books selected for this year’s Big Read was Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. The students were taken into a “secret room,” modeled after the numerous rooms used across Europe to hide the Jews from the Nazi SS Troops. Once in the room, the students were read excerpts from the book by retired Texas State Senator Florence Shapiro and Dallas Holocaust Museum Board Member, Evey Fagadau.
As the tour was concluding, the group was again directed into the same meeting room where they had begun the tour. At this time they experienced a presentation by Julie Berman, as she detailed how of her parents met in one of the German Concertation Camps, and their story of love, separation, hardship, and survival; and their quest or reuniting after being liberated from their captors at the conclusion of the
What made this boxcar unique was the extreme probability of it being used to transport thousands of the holocaust victims to concertation or extermination camps across Nazi Occupied Europe. It clearly demonstrated the bleak conditions faced by those caught up by the Nazi Party’s “purification” of the German people. After viewing the permanent exhibits, the students were privileged enough to participate in one of the various activities presented during the Dallas Public Library’s “Big D Reads” program. One of the books selected for this year’s Big Read was Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. The students were taken into a “secret room,” modeled after the numerous rooms used across Europe to hide the Jews from the Nazi SS Troops. Once in the room, the students were read excerpts from the book by retired Texas State Senator Florence Shapiro and Dallas Holocaust Museum Board Member, Evey Fagadau.
As the tour was concluding, the group was again directed into the same meeting room where they had begun the tour. At this time they experienced a presentation by Julie Berman, as she detailed how of her parents met in one of the German Concertation Camps, and their story of love, separation, hardship, and survival; and their quest or reuniting after being liberated from their captors at the conclusion of the