Milan Central

This guide to Milan Central station uncovers Binario 21, the hidden platform beneath the marble concourse from which deportation trains left for Auschwitz. It centers on 30 January 1944, when a young Jewish girl and her father were among roughly six hundred people forced onto a cattle car there, one of fifteen transports that would follow before the war ended. Passengers upstairs, buying tickets under the station's soaring vault, rarely knew the trains beneath their feet existed.