Sioux City, Iowa — A museum exhibit featuring a replica of a rail car used to transport Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust of World War Two opened Wednesday in Sioux City. George Linblade designed the exhibit and said the tough part was finding a railcar.
The rail car was moved to the Sioux City Museum two years ago and the work began on it. Linblade says they want the exhibit to be something that young people would visit, so they tried to make it realistic.
The exhibit includes items or replicas of items from Holocaust survivors of concentration camps. That includes a one-way ticket to Auschwitz.
He says they blew the ticket up so it can be easily read. There are also numerous photos on display — including those taken by then Private Veron Tott of Sioux City. Tott’s unit came across survivors left behind at the Ahlem concentration camp by fleeing Nazis in the waning days of World War Two.
