Transport Bt from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Treblinka, Extermination Camp, Poland on 05/10/1942

This transport was announced in the Daily Orders issued by the Jewish leadership on October 2, 1942. That morning, each inmate scheduled for transport was informed of his upcoming deportation. Those who were considered to fill vital positions in the ghetto were given a very short period to file an appeal. On the next day, the final summonses were sent out, and the inmates on this transport were ordered to pack their 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 “Bt”, departed from Theresienstadt on October 5, 1942 and was the first in a series of two transports of relatively young individuals to Treblinka. On board were 1,000 inmates of Theresienstadt. It arrived in Treblinka on October 7 or 8. The transport was composed almost entirely of Jews who had been deported in the previous month from Ostrava in the Protectorate. Their average age was 39. On the day of the transport, the inmates were marched to the Bauschowitz (Bohusovice) train station, some 3km outside the ghetto, where they were loaded onto the railway cars that were waiting. From Theresienstadt, the train presumably went north to Dresden, and then east to Breslau (Wroclaw), Posen (Poznan), Warsaw and Treblinka, finally stopping at the train tracks inside the Treblinka camp....