Transport from Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. Main (Wiesbaden), Hesse-Nassau, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 16/03/1943

On March 16, 1943, a transport set out from Frankfurt am Main with 41 Jews aboard, most from Frankfurt and several from Wiesbaden. They had been placed aboard a regular train bound for Berlin, where they were transferred to a deportation train that departed on March 17 and reached Theresienstadt the next day, March 18. In the Theresienstadt ghetto records, the transport is referred to as I/90, the Roman numeral I denoting Berlin. Among the deportees were the Berlin-Krämers. In late October 1942, they were ordered to leave their home and all its contents and go to the assembly point at Hermesweg 5–7. Fanny Krämer recounted that upon hearing about the family’s deportation residents of the neighborhood visited their home. “When they found out that we had to leave — and I’ll remember it forever - my husband put on his stovepipe hat and said, ‘Well, what would you like [to take]?’ Just like that, more or less! [making a gesture that invites people to help themselves]. It was not simple at all! They looked around. And then [they asked]: ‘Can I have this thing? Can I have that thing?’ They never paid us for what they took. ‘Very well, take it,’ [we said]. Even though taking things was not allowed, they took more and more anyway.”...