At the rear of Pithiviers station, wild grass and wild flowers grow on the gravel bed of the ballast. The last travelers transited here in 1969. From these tracks now swallowed by vegetation, thousands of Jews took the trains of death 80 years ago. Eight convoys left for the extermination camps between June and September 1942.
This Sunday, the small station of Pithiviers reopens, transformed into a place of memory and education, history and pedagogy.
The past goes back to the present, and it is as if the station is rediscovering its ghosts, the Jewish victims of the…