The Holocaust Memorial, located below Milan Central Station at street level, houses a museum created with the aim of "creating a place of memory, a place of dialogue and meeting the different religions, ethnic groups and cultures" covering an area of 760 square metres, mostly on the ground floor of so-called Route 21. Postal trains loaded and unloaded, hundreds of Jews and political exiles loaded onto cattle wagons The memorial, sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial Foundation, was inaugurated on January 27, 2013.