page_title: Stock car (rail)
section_title: Use for deportation
hierarchical_section_title: Stock car (rail) / Use for deportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Note: The source description of this image has been contested. The carriage has letters ČSD (i.e. Czech State Railways; which operated before World War II, and after). Likewise, the soldier overseeing the operation does not seem to be Soviet, and the luggage is larger and more varied than in the NKVD practice; only one hour or so was given to pack.[1][2]Source description: Deported Polish families load onto trains to Siberia in Eastern Poland during the Soviet occupation of Kresy in World War II. First wave of mass deportations began on the night of 9 February 1940. The second, on 13 April 1940. The third, on 29 June 1940. And the final fourth one, between May and June 1941. The cumulative number of Polish nationals extracted from their homes and sent to Soviet no-mans land with nothing to live on exceeded 1,600,000. Polski: Cztery masowe deportacje obywateli polskich w głąb ZSRS przeprowadzone w latach 1940–1941. Pierwsza deportacja dotknęła rodziny osadników wojskowych i cywilnych. Miała miejsce w nocy z 9 na 10 II 1940 r. Druga deportacja odbyła się 13 IV 1940 r. i w jej wyniku wysiedlono głównie rodziny osób przetrzymywanych w obozach jenieckich oraz więzionych i aresztowanych. Trzecia tura wywózek odbyła się 29 VI 1940 r. i dotknęła głównie uciekinierów spod okupacji niemieckiej tzw. „bieżeńców”. Czwarta deportacja miała miejsce w maju i czerwcu 1941 r. Wysiedleniu podlegali przede wszystkim członkowie konspiracji, ich bliscy, i rodziny osób rozstrzelanych. W ciągu dwudziestu miesięcy okupacji, w czterech masowych deportacjach, wywieziono co najmniej 1 600 000 obywateli Polskich.
context_page_description: In railroad terminology, a stock car, cattle car, cattle truck or cattle wagon is a type of rolling stock used for carrying livestock to market. A traditional stock car resembles a boxcar with louvered instead of solid car sides for the purpose of providing ventilation; stock cars can be single-level for large animals such as cattle or horses, or they can have two or three levels for smaller animals such as sheep, pigs, and poultry. Specialized types of stock cars have been built to haul live fish and shellfish and circus animals such as camels and elephants. Until the 1880s, when the Mather Stock Car Company and others introduced "more humane" stock cars, death rates could be quite high as the animals were hauled over long distances. Improved technology and faster shipping times have greatly reduced deaths.
context_section_description: Given their dimensions and features, cattle wagons have been used as vehicles for forced mass transfer and deportation of people. Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn national railway system under the strict supervision of the German Nazis and their allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the German Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.
  Stock cars were used for forced settlement and population transfer in the Soviet Union in the mid-20th century.
  Following the end of World War II in Europe, Ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia in cattle wagons.
caption: People being deported in stock cars in World War II
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