Florida Holocaust Museum to re-open Wednesday

Turn a corner at the Florida Holocaust Museum and you come face to face with a railway car. The worn-out cattle car looks barely fit for animals. It’s like one of the cars that rolled tens of thousands of innocent people to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

The wooden boxcar has no windows and the sliding door is closed, like those that sealed the fate of millions of people 80 years ago.

“It’s a very powerful symbol of that era,” said Ursula Szczepinska, who directs education and research at the St. Petersburg museum, which reopens Wednesday after a yearlong renovation…

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