Transport Bn, Train Da 228 from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Maly Trostenets, Camp, Belorussia (USSR) on 22/09/1942

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). According to historian Tomáš Fedorovič, most of the deportees in the six deportations from Theresienstadt to Maly Trostenets and Baranowicze between July and September 1942 were originally from the Protectorate, from Kolín, Olomouc (Olmütz) and Prague; whereas only 64 Jews were from Germany and Austria. Transport Bn left Theresienstadt on September 22, 1942 for Minsk in Belarus with 1,000 Jews on board. It was the fifth and last deportation to leave the ghetto for this destination after a moratorium that had lasted several months. Unlike the previous transports which had been bound for the Minsk ghetto, from now on the Jews were taken directly to the village of Maly Trostenets, 15 kilometers southeast of Minsk. A Soviet kolkhoz (collective settlement) was located near this village where SS forces carried out the mass murders of Jews. In all, 65,000 Jews were murdered in Maly Trostenets and 200,000 met the same fate throughout the region. They had come from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, as well as the nearby Minsk ghetto....