Transport, Train AE9 from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 16/03/1945

Transport AE9 arrived from Prague on March 16, 1945. According to a report issued by the Transport Department of the Theresienstadt administration on that day, 139 Jews were on board; the deportees reached Theresienstadt at 10:00 a.m; and the “transport works” (Transportarbeiten) would probably be completed by 5:00 p.m. This referred to the deportees’ detention in the intake area known in ghetto terminology as the “Schleuse.” Here, they were dispossessed by SS and Czech police of all valuables that appeared on a list of contraband. Afterwards they were housed in in severely overcrowded barracks. In a memorandum bearing the same date and signed by Benjamin Murmelstein, chair of the Theresienstadt Judenältestenrat (Council of Jewish Elders), it was noted that people “not able-bodied” (arbeitsunfähig) had not been received. Probably as a continuation of this memorandum, the names of two women, both of them nurses, were also mentioned. To the best of our knowledge, all of the Jews aboard this transport survived the war.