Transport AAy, Train Da 221 from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Baranowicze, Baranowicze, Nowogrodek, Poland on 28/07/1942

The transport orders were handed to the camp commander, Siegfried Seidl from the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) in Prague, who passed them on to the Jewish leadership of the ghetto (Ältestenrat) on July 21, and ordered a transport to the East (Ostentransport) to depart on July 28 with 1,000 people on board. The Council also received the names of 50 people who were added to the transport as penal measures or due to other reasons; 13 of them were chosen by the Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration in Prague, and the rest were chosen by Seidl. The 180th Daily Orders of the Jewish Council dated July 24 declared that transport AAy would depart from the ghetto shortly. The Orders stated that the list of deportees would be published that morning, and that requests for exemptions or to volunteer to join the transport may be submitted by 12:00. The deportees were only allowed to take hand luggage: the rest of their belongings had to be sent in advance to the quarantine site, the “Schluese”, located at the courtyard of the Aussig Barracks where they would be inspected. The transport consisted of 996-999 Jews, all of whom had been previously deported from the Protectorate. About half of them arrived from Prague, and the other half came from Olomouc (Olmütz). All of the deportees were in the ghetto for no more than a month before they were deported once again....