Transport Bq from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Treblinka, Extermination Camp, Poland on 23/09/1942

This transport was announced in the Daily Orders issued by the Jewish leadership on September 22, 1942, where it was claimed that the deportees will be sent to another ghetto. Later that day, each inmate scheduled for transport was ordered to pack his or her belongings, and report to the quarantine site (“Schleuse”) at the courtyard of the Aussig Barracks. During quarantine, the Jewish leadership was able to intermittently arrange for provisions and supplies. The transport, designated “Bq”, departed from Theresienstadt on September 23, 1942 and was the third in a series of eight transports of sick and elderly Jews (“Alterstransporte”). On board were 1,980 inmates of Theresienstadt. It arrived in Treblinka on September 25 or 26. The transport was composed entirely of Jews who had been deported earlier from Germany and Austria, among them 716 deportees from Vienna, 400 from Westphalia and 356 from Lower Silesia. Their average age was 72 On the day of the transport, the inmates were marched or taken by truck to the Bauschowitz (Bohusovice) train station, some 3km outside the ghetto, where they were loaded onto the railway cars that were waiting. According to the testimony of Max Berger, some of the sick and the elderly inmates would occasionally die on the way to the train station, and would still be loaded into the cars in order to fill the headcount quota for transport....