Transport Au 1 from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 15/05/1942

Transport Au1 left Prague (Praha) to Theresienstadt on May15, 1942, and arrived in Theresienstadt the same day. It consisted of approx.1,000 Jews. Excerpt from Jan's Rocek Testimony In May we received our summons to the transport. We were ordered to present ourselves, I think on May 12, to the great hall which used to be part of the Prague trade fair (veletrh, Messe). I remember very little of the preparations. We packed our permitted 50 kg into suitcases, two suitcases per person, with clothing and some, mostly non-perishable, food. We were given transport numbers; mine was Au1 698, which also had to be painted in large letters on the suitcases. From then on the transport numbers essentially replaced names. My parents managed to hide a few things with friends and neighbors....