Photos of railway cars and wagons. Collection

In 1996 the Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen - Société nationale des chemins de fer belges (NMBS-SNCB) [National Railway Company of Belgium] kindly provided the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (JMDR), predecessor of Kazerne Dossin, with reproductions of two photos of a freight car (A001067 and A001068). On 21 March 2007, a photo of a third-class passenger wagon (P003379) was added to the collection. The latter was also used for the national exhibition at the Belgian pavilion at Auschwitz State Museum and for its exhibition catalogue, both created by the JMDR. 

Photos of railway cars and wagons. Collection 

3 digitised images (3 photos) 

This collection contains : a pre-war photo of a third-class passenger wagon of the NMBS-SNCB, of the same type used for the deportations of Jews from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau from 4 August 1942 until 15 January 1943 (transports I to XIX) ; two post-war photos of a NMBS-SNCB freight car of the same type used for the deportations of Jews from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau from 19 April 1943 until 31 July 1944 (transport XX to transport XXVI). 

National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS-SNCB) 

Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu 

National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS-SNCB) 

No further accruals are to be expected. 

WOUTERS Nico, Bezet bedrijf. De oorlogsgeschiedenis van de NMBS, Tielt, 2023.