A memorial train featuring an exhibition on the thousands of children deported and murdered by the Nazis during World War II completed its journey near the former Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland.

Some 200 people marched on Thursday from the railway station in Oswiecim, where the train arrived, to a platform at the nearby Auschwitz camp, where more than 1.1 million people, including one million European Jews, were killed there between 1941-45.

The train's arrival at Auschwitz coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe on May 8, 1945.

Symbolic journey

Organizers said that more than 225,000 people viewed the exhibition during its six-month voyage.

Detailing the fate of Jewish children and teenagers deported by the Nazis between October 1940 to December 1944, the "Memorial Train" focuses on the biographies of