Transport AK/B from Ceske Budejovice, Ceske Budejovice, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 18/04/1942

Transport AK/B left Ceske Budejovice (Budweis) for Theresienstadt on April 18, 1942. It consisted of 909 Jews. According to existing deportation lists the deportees were residents from Ceske Budejovice, and also jews from neighboring towns and villages as: Vodnany, Hluboka nad Vltavou, Bavarovice, Suchdol nad Luznici, Tyn nad Vltavou, Bavorov und Trebon. The deportees were assembled in a metal factory near the train station. Prior to the train’s departure, several staff members of the Prague Jewish community Transports Department arrived in Ceske Budejovice 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, and issued notices regarding the date of deportation. The Jews were transferred to the train station and put on a train. After it arrived in Bohusovice, the deportees had to disembark and were forced to march the remaining 3 km to Theresienstadt....