Its most notorious purpose came during World War II, when it was part of the German Reichsbahn, the state railway system. The Nazis used this car, number 011-993, and others like it to transport Jews and other victims of the Holocaust to concentration camps. Well over one hundred people at a time would be carried in these "transport cars." They would be packed in so tightly that there was no room to sit down, and they would suffer without relief for days at a time during the long, slow trips to the death camps.
Following the war, the car was discovered in Poland, near the town of Chelmno.. Drainage holes were cut into its floor and a ventilation hole into the roof, and it was used as a grain car.
