Transport Br from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Treblinka, Extermination Camp, Poland on 26/09/1942

This transport was announced in the Daily Orders issued by the Jewish leadership on September 23, 1942, where it was claimed that the deportees would be sent to another ghetto. On September 25, 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 “Br”, departed from Theresienstadt on September 26, 1942 and was the fourth in a series of eight transports of sick and elderly Jews (“Alterstransporte”). On board were 2,004 inmates of Theresienstadt. It arrived in Treblinka on September 28 or 29. The transport was composed entirely of Jews who had been deported earlier from Germany and Austria, among them 617 deportees from Vienna and 584 from Berlin. 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....