Only a handful of Jews remained in Denmark following the three transports to Theresienstadt in October 1943. A subsequent transport, on November 23, had the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin, as its destination. It consisted of nine Jewish men as well as twenty-seven non-Jewish men, who were classified as political prisoners. Also on this train were ten Jewish women and children together with four non-Jewish women, who were taken off the train at Fürstenberg and from there to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.^[1] Of the Jewish men on this transport, the youngest was Max (Moses) Katznelson, aged twenty-eight (born February 25, 1915), and the oldest was Michael Rubin Singerowitz, aged fifty-two (born 1891).

On the morning of November 23, the Jewish deportees, who were incarcerated in the Horserød internment camp, some 8 kilometers west of Helsingør (Elsinore) in Northern Zealand, were told to gather their belongings and be ready to leave that evening. They were told by the German authorities that their destination was Theresienstadt.^[2] At 9-10 P.M., the men, women and children were taken in cars from Horserød to the train station in Helsingør. From there, a regular, second-class passenger train took them, via Copenhagen Central Station, to nearby Vestre Prison (Vestre Fængsel).^[3] The thirty-one non-Jewish deportees were herded onto the train at the prison, bringing the total number of deportees in the transport, together with the nineteen Jews, to fifty.^[4] The two groups were placed in separate cars.

From Vestre Prison the train headed west toward Roskilde, before turning south on the way to Gedser, a port town on the Baltic Sea. As the train slowed down near Roskilde, three Jewish men – Walter London, Gerhard Löb and Heller (first name unknown) – climbed out the window, jumped off, and afterward reached Sweden and safety.^[5] At Gedser the train drove onto a train ferry,^[6] which crossed the Baltic Sea, a distance of about 60 kilometers, docking in Warnemünde in northern Germany. There the deportees were loaded onto a third-class passenger train of the German Reichsbahn, which arrived in Fürstenberg, about 100 kilometers north of Berlin, in the early hours of November 25....