Transport Bc, Train Da 224 from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Maly Trostenets, Camp, Belorussia (USSR) on 25/08/1942

The transport orders were handed to the camp commander, Siegfried Seidl from the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) in Prague, who passed them on to the Jewish leadership of the ghetto (Ältestenrat). In his Ghetto diary, Egon (Gonda) Redlich, head of the Children and Youth Department in the ghetto, wrote on August 21, 1942: "Three transports will go at the end of this month. It's hard to make up a list for the transports because everyone is trying to stay in Terezin, trying to find any assignment or work that will fend off the transports." On the morning of the transport, the Jews were marched or taken by truck to the Bauschowitz (Bohusovice) train station, some 3 km outside the ghetto, where they were loaded onto the railway cars that were waiting....