Transport from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Bergen Belsen, Camp, Germany on 15/03/1944

One such group consisted of Jews with Hungarian citizenship. As early as November 1943 Adolf Eichmann briefed Eberhard von Thadden from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Auswärtiges Amt), on the possibility of transferring Hungarian Jews interned in the Theresienstadt ghetto near Prague to Bergen-Belsen. According to the report, the plan was not carried out because the Hungarian government did not object to having several of its Jewish citizens incarcerated in Theresienstadt. On March 19, 1944, German troops entered Hungary, effectively occupying it. Four days earlier, on March 15, Egon (Gonda) Redlich, head of the Youth Department in the ghetto, wrote in his diary: "The Hungarians are leaving the ghetto today". Although no official records of a transport for that date exist, it is possible to reconstruct this transport based on other sources. According to the anonymous post-war testimony of a woman who identified herself under the alias M.L., she and her husband, who was in possession of forged Hungarian papers, were sent away from Theresienstadt along with nine other alleged Hungarian nationals. Redlich's diary names one of these deportees: Pal (Dov) Revesz, a Zionist activist who was deported to Theresienstadt from Prague in May 1942....