19 September 2007
Italy's first Holocaust museum is to be located in a Milan railway station which was used to deport Jews to the Nazi death camps during World War II. Officials in the northern Italian city said this week that they expected the memorial to be opened at the site of the notorious underground ‘Platform 21’ of the Central Station in 2009. Platform 21 was designed for cargo shipping, but during World War II hundreds of Italian Jews were loaded into trains there and transferred to camps in Germany and Poland. So far, Italy is the only major European country not to have a Holocaust memorial. Along with Milan, a memorial is also planned for Rome, Italian officials say.
