Milan Holocaust Memorial Foundation
The Memoriale della Shoah, run by the Fondazione Memoriale della Shoah di Milano ONLUS, is anchored at Milan Centrale, where the railways became part of the machinery of deportation. The memorial commemorates Jewish prisoners taken from San Vittore Prison, who were driven to a secret underground platform there—Platform 21, or *Binario 21*—to be loaded onto freight cars. From this point, Holocaust trains carried prisoners onward to extermination camps, either directly or through other transit camps. Over the deportations, twenty trains left Milan with up to 1,200 Jewish prisoners, and the majority were murdered at Auschwitz. The memorial institution itself dates from 2013, when it was established in Piazza Edmond Jacob Safra 1, placing the story of Central European rail transit firmly inside Milan’s public memory.
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