The Cattle Car - Memorial to the Deportees, Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.

The Cattle Car - Memorial to the Deportees is a railway freight car and a section of track mounted on a broken bridge, designed by architect Moshe Safdie and built in 1995 at Yad Vashem on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The car, originally used to transport livestock, was donated to Yad Vashem by the Polish railway company.

The freight car was obtained from Polish authorities and represents the vehicles that transported millions of Jews to extermination camps during World War II. Its placement at this location marks a turning point in history between persecution and the rebuilding of Jewish life.

Above the car hangs Dan Pagis's poem "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car". Beside it, a wall quotes the testimony of Yaakov Kaszpicki, deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka in August 1942, who escaped after 18 days hidden in a clothing car and was killed on 22 April 1943, the fourth day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The memorial is located within the Yad Vashem complex and is accessible on foot from the main entrance with clear signage throughout. Comfortable shoes are recommended since the viewing area involves different levels and the grounds are hilly.

The car was given to Yad Vashem by the Polish railway company, which had kept it since the end of the war. From the road climbing to Jerusalem from Ein Karem, it appears to break out of the trees on the mountain summit. A similar idea underlies the train-car memorial on Loewenhardtdamm in Berlin, marking 63 deportations of Berlin Jews, mainly to Auschwitz.