page_title: Holocaust trains
section_title: Railway companies involved
hierarchical_section_title: Holocaust trains / Railway companies involved
caption_attribution_description: English: Railroad cars would transport Jews to concentration camps; many were unaware of their fate.
context_page_description: Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn national railway system under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.
  The extermination of people targeted in the "Final Solution" was dependent on two factors: the capacity of the death camps to gas the victims and quickly dispose of their bodies, as well as the capacity of the railways to transport the victims from Nazi ghettos to extermination camps. The most modern accurate numbers on the scale of the "Final Solution" still rely partly on shipping records of the German railways.
context_section_description: Deutsche Reichsbahn, the German Reich Railway
  CFR, the state railways of Romania
  MÁV, Hungarian State Railways
  BDZ (БДЖ), Bulgarian national Railways
  National Railway Company of Belgium, National Railway Company of Belgium
  Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) in the Netherlands 
  Ostbahn, a railway operator set up by the General Government in occupied Poland
  SNCF, French National Railway Company
caption: Covered goods wagons on the Holocaust train would transport Jews to concentration camps; many were unaware of their awaiting fate.
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