Transport from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 18/05/1943

The last transport of Jews to leave Munich for Auschwitz departed on May 18, 1943. Documents from the Municipal Food Agency (Ernährungsamt) in Munich note that 68 Jews were deported “to the East,” and that the rations for the transport were ordered by the Municipal Food Agency in Augsburg. The transport included 65 women and three men. Only three of the deportees — two women and one man — were from Munich. Four of the deportees were from Berlin, and one was from an unknown location. These eight Jews were deported directly from the Munich penitentiary; two of them were stateless, their last address being the closed community building at Lindwurmstraße 125. The other 60 deportees were Polish Jewish women who had been sent from Lodz and assigned to various places: apparently they were used as forced labour for the flax industry, initially at Unterdießen; at the end of 1941 they were transferred to the Lohhof labour camp. On October 23, 1942, they were again transferred as forced labour to the large textile company Christian Dierig in Augsburg. A letter sent by the local finance office in Munich to the official in charge of finance at the Property Liquidation Bureau (Vermögensverwertungsstelle) on May 27, 1943, noted that the Munich Gestapo had confiscated the property owned by the Jews and had forwarded information on that property to the local finance office....