A typical holocaust train that brought people to the death camps from different
parts of Europe consisted of 50 box cars each with a carrying capacity of 50
people, i.e. 2,500 people per trainset. However, in order to speed up the final
solution, the Nazis kept to a maximum of 55 freight cars on average, loaded
from 150% to 200% capacity. During the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw
Ghetto to Treblinka in 1942 trains carried even up to 7,000 per train! Between
1941 and December 1944, an estimated 4,000,000 prisoners mainly Jews have been
transported to the death camps through Holocaust trains. A more detailed
general article on the subject is here in Wikipedia.
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