Italy - Milan Marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Platform 21

Remembrance takes place Milan Shoah Memorial (Platform 21) is in an area of Milan Central Station located underneath the ordinary railway platforms. The area was originally used for loading and unloading post wagons, and had direct access to Via Ferrante Aporti. From 1943 to 1945, this was the place from which hundreds of deportees were loaded onto convoys headed to the concentration and death camps (Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen Belsen) or to the Italian concentration camps such as Fossoli and Bo (Photo by Emanuele Dello Strologo/Corbis via Getty Images)