Outside of the memorial are eighteen glass tile mosiac butterflies. "Butterflies were chosen to decorate the garden for two reasons: To honor the children of Terezin and to symbolize the cars new purpose"(Whitwell Children's Holocaust Memorial, Whitwell, TN).
This photo is the outside of the railcar with its original numbers. If you add all these numbers together, they equal eighteen. I think this is more than coincidence. On the literature is given out at the memorial, it says "To honor the children of Terezin and to symbolize the new life and purpose of the car (No longer is it a symbol of death; rather, it is a symbol of new life)" (Whitwell Children's Holocaust Memorial, Whitwell, TN).
