Transport Ai from Brno, Brno Hlavni Mesto, Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 08/04/1942

Transport Ai left Brno for the Theresienstadt Ghetto on April 8, 1942. It consisted of 923 Jews who were residents of Brno and other towns in the vicinity, two of which were Ivancice (Eibenschütz) and Bucovice (Butschowitz). Some of the deportees, mainly sick and elderly Jews who resided outside Brno were transferred by buses to a collection point in a school building on Merhautova St. 37. Prior to the train’s departure, several staff members of the Prague Jewish community Transports Department arrived in Brno to carry out administrative measures according to the orders they received from the Central office for Jewish Immigration. They prepared a list of deportees, registered Jewish property, issued notices regarding the date of deportation, and assisted in packing and carrying luggage. The deportees were transferred by tram to the train station and put on a passenger train. After arrival in Bohusovice, the Jews were taken off and were forced to march the remaining 3 km to Theresienstadt....