It was an emotional moment near the Boston Common on Tuesday as people watched an historic railcar get lifted and installed in the city’s Holocaust museum that is currently under construction.

“When I first saw the railcar, I got very emotional,” Susan Servais said, Board of Directors, Holocaust Museum Boston.

The railcar, which is believed to be the type used to transport Jewish people to concentration camps was donated by the family of a holocaust survivor in Arizona.

Josh Craine worked on restoring it for the last several months.

“It was a very powerful, moving experience to be able to work on it,” Craine said.

The artifact will be displayed in a bay window on the museum’s fourth floor that’s visible from the street. Something the museum’s co-founder and CEO hopes will leave a last

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