Transport from Vught, Camp, The Netherlands to Ravensbrück, Camp, Germany on 06/09/1944

After the war, the Dutch Red Cross gathered documents about the September 6, 1944 transport that departed from the Vught concentration camp to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Among them was a note dated September 2, 1944, for the Bureau of Statistics (Statistisches Büro), stating that Penal Transport (S[traf]-Transport) 766 left the Vught camp with five Jews aboard. The documentation indicates that of these Jewish deportees, two were female, one was male, however the genders of the two others are uncertain. They had come from different places in the Netherlands: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Hilversum.^[1] It is quite likely that these five Jews were deported, together with other non-Jewish inmates, from the Vught concentration camp, when it was finally dissolved on September 5/6 because the Allied armies were purportedly closing in.^[2]

The Jews, together with the group of the other inmates – 653 non-Jewish Dutch and Belgian women, one French woman, and an unknown number of men – were transferred from the Vught concentration camp some 600 kilometers to Germany in a freight train.^[3] On September 9, the train stopped at Oranienburg where the men were removed and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On the same day, the women continued to Fürstenberg/Havel, from where they were marched to Ravensbrück.^[4]

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