Holocaust Boxcar

First Assembly of God in Fort Myers recently hosted a Holocaust Boxcar as part of The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest's Florida's Boxcar Transportation and Education Project. This box car travels to area schools to educate students about the Holocaust and to support the Museum's mission of "promoting  tolerance and understanding by teaching the history and lessons of the Holocaust."

This boxcar was originally built in 1919 and was restored in 2008 with approximately 75% of the original wood and most of the original metal. These small, cramped boxcars with no heat or air and no bathroom carried up to100 people at a time to the Nazi concentration camps.

In addition to the Boxcar, the Museum has over 1,000 artifacts and photographs chronicling the rise of Nazism to the Allied Liberation and Nuremberg Trials, with many items donated by local survivors. The Museum is located at 4760 Tamiami Trail N in Naples, Florida and is open Tuesday through Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm, except for holidays including the day after Thanksgiving. Admission is listed as $8 for adults and $3 for students ages 12-18. Due to the nature of the exhibits, student visits under the age of 12 are not recommended and require parent permission.

Please visit their web site for more information and may we, both individually and as a nation, never forget.