Transport from Beuthen, Beuthen O. S. (Oppeln), Silesia (Upper), Germany to unstated place on 18/05/1942

The third transport from Beuthen allegedly went on May 18 to Dąbrowa Górnicza (Dombrowa), as indicated in the handwritten note under the heading "Liste 3" ("ab Dombrowa). The Gestapo entry specifies that 31 Jews from three so-called Jew Houses in Beuthen (Krakauerstraße 1, Hubertusstraße 5 and Am Ring 11) were deported. They were probably brought to Dąbrowa Górnicza by truck. The small mining town is located just 6 km from Będzin and 22 km from Beuthen. In the summer of 1941, the Germans forced its 4,000 Jewish citizens into a ghetto, adding Jews from other neighboring towns. On May 17, a Schupo unit from Sosnowiec deported the Jews of Kazimierz Górniczy (some estimated 200 deportees) to Dąbrowa Górnicza. On May 18, 1942, the Jews from neighboring Strzemieszyce were moved to the Jewish district in Dąbrowa. The fact that Strzemieszyce still had still between 1,000 and 1,500 Jews who were all deported to Dąbrowa suggests that a transport from Dąbrowa was assembled that day, possibly including the Jews from Kazimierz Górniczy, the Jews from Beuthen and other Upper Silesian towns. Dąbrowa had a railway station and was connected to the railroad line to Katowice from where the train could have travelled either to Auschwitz or to the district of Lublin. The historian Wolfgang Curilla asserts that this Dombrowa Transport went to Auschwitz. He refers to the sources of the historians M. Gilbert and S. Steinbacher. However, they are only suggesting May 5, 1942, as the deportation date without substantiating it. The Auschwitz Chronicle does not have an entry about Jews from Dąbrowa Górnicza on that day or even during this period (plus minus one week). Deportations from Dombrowa to Auschwitz are only documented as from August 14, 1942. There seem to be no survivors from the third Beuthen transport.