Transport from Breslau, Detention Site, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 28/11/1943

Prior to the Nazi rise to power, the city of Breslau (Wrocław), in Silesia Province (Śląsk), had one of the largest Jewish communities in Germany, with 19,722 members in June, 1933. According to the census of May 17, 1939, this number dwindled to 10,309.^[1] In the summer of 1943, only 600 to 700 Jews were left in Breslau, after several transports conducted by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), shipped thousands of Jewish men, women, and children to Kovno (Kaunas) in Lithuania, to Theresienstadt (Terezín) in the Czech Republic, and to Izbica (Lubelska) in Poland.^[2]

On November 28, 1943, forty-one Jewish men, and thirty-seven Jewish women, were deported from Breslau to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The deportees were taken from the prison in Breslau, near the Gestapo on Neue Graupen (Krupnicza) Street.^[3] Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (née Lasker) was among them. She had been caught, together with her sister, Renate Lasker-Allais (née Lasker), by the Gestapo, for trying to escape to Paris. Both young women had been assigned to forced labor in a paper factory in Zakrzów (Sakrau), a suburb of Breslau. There they clandestinely helped French fellow forced laborers, among them POWs, escape to France.^[4]...