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Transport from Beuthen, Beuthen O. S. (Oppeln), Silesia (Upper), Germany to unstated place on 16/05/1942

Transport
Departure Date 16/05/1942
The second transport from Beuthen allegedly went on May 16 to Będzin, as indicated in the handwritten note under the heading "Liste 2" ("ab Bendsburg). The Gestapo entry specifies that 32 Jews from two so-called Jew Houses in Beuthen (Kattowitzerstraße 43 and Hubertusstraße 5) were deported. They were probably brought to Będzin by truck. Deportations from Będzin to Auschwitz are only documented as from August 14, 1942.
A testimony (in Polish), provided by the merchant Jozna Blumenfeld, born on September 27, 1893, in Kattowitz, mentions that the Gestapo officer in charge of the "Jewish affairs" in Beuthen was an "inspector" named Vicky. Blumenfeld outlines some details of the second deportation:
"The deportations from Beuthen occurred between April and the end of June 1942. Jews were taken from the streets to the camps. …The deportation proceeded as follows: deportees were loaded on to a police truck. The truck then turned first to the old-age home at Kasernenstrasse 4. There was a woman lying with a cast and the physician said that she was unfit for travel. The Gestapo insisted that the cast be removed so that she could be deported. They also took a mother and her 4-day old infant, and former Air Force lieutenant named Pinczower, a war wounded and seriously disabled man who also was an occupant of that old-age home. When they raided the building, they found Pinczower without his prosthesis and, loaded him on to the truck as he was. The last deportation took place on June 28, 1942. …. After that, only three Jews remained in Beuthen until the Judenrat was dissolved: the bank director Traj, who had received the highest possible German decoration during World War I, the legal counsel Rotte, and the secretary of the Jewish community Notman. These three were eventually deported to Theresienstadt, after which only a few Jews from mixed marriages remained."...
Overview
    No. of transports at the event : 1
    No. of deportees at departure : 32
    No. of deportees upon arrival : 32
    Date of Departure : 16/05/1942