FLORENCE, ITALY – 750 students and teachers on Monday January 19, 2015, boarded a memorial train to Auschwitz at Florence train station track 16, where trains to the infamous extermination camp once left with their cargo of deportees.
The ninth annual memorial train school trip is promoted by the Tuscany region. The education ministry at the weekend signed a protocol with the Union of Jewish Communities in Italy (UCEI) for the inclusion of the Shoah in the national teaching curriculum. “The Italian school system is doing its part in the transmission of memory,” said Education Minister Stefania Giannini.
From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the gas chambers at Auschwitz from all over German-occupied Europe. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz. The camp were liberated on January 27, 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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