According to historian Tomáš Fedorovič, most of the deportees in the six deportations from Theresienstadt to Maly Trostenets and Baranowicze between July and September 1942 were originally from the Protectorate, from Kolin, Olomouc (Olmütz) and Prague, whereas only 64 Jews were from Germany and Austria. In his Ghetto diary, Egon (Gonda) Redlich, head of the Children and Youth Department in the ghetto, wrote on August 1, 1942: “Amid the whirlpool of life: a mixture of the fate of man, chaos, tumult. […] On the 4th of the month a transport will leave." The Daily Orders (Tagesbefehle) Nos. 185-187 issued by the Jewish Council (Ältestenrat) in the ghetto on August 1-3, 1942, informed the ghetto inmates that a transport was imminent and stated that the deportees would be notified. This notification was issued the day before departure on August 3. The Daily Orders initially stated that the deportees would be required to bring their luggage for inspection to the quarantine site, known as the “Schleuse”. The Daily Orders of August 3, however, claimed that the camp commander, SS-Obersturmführer Seidl, ordered that only bags which had already been transferred to the quarantine site would be allowed on the deportation train. On August 6, 1942, the Daily Order No. 189 dryly reported that transport AAz included 1,000 people who had been moved “to the East” (nach dem Osten)....