Transport AE4 from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 25/02/1945

This transport which arrived from Prague in Theresienstadton February 25, 1945, received in the ghetto the designation "Ae4." According to a report issued by the Jewish Administration in Theresienstadt on that day, 522 names appeared on the deportation list but two of them had not arrived. A study of the records reveals that one of them was deported to Theresienstadt later on Transport “Ae9” on March 16, and that one woman had died on the day of the transport; the cause of death, however, was not specified. The report also shows that the deportees had reached Theresienstadt at 12:50 p.m. that day and that the deportees’ intake (Transportarbeiten) in the area known by the ghetto inhabitants as the “Schleuse”—had ended at 8:00 p.m. While in the Schleuse, the deportees had all valuables that appeared on a list of contraband confiscated by SS and Czech police. Afterwards, they were housed in severely overcrowded barracks....