Transport Cf from Pardubice, Pardubice, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 05/12/1942

Transport Ch left Hradec Kralove (Königgrätz) for the Theresienstadt Ghetto on December 17, 1942. It consisted of 650 Jews. According to archival records, some of the deportees were residents from Hradec Kralove, and others came from towns and villages in the vicinity. Among these were Dvur Kralove (Königinhof), Horice (Horschitz), Upice (Eipel), Hronov (Hronow), Nachod and Rychnov nad Kneznou (Reichenau). Prior to the train’s departure, several staff members of the Prague Jewish community Transports Department arrived in Hradec Kralove to carry out administrative measures according to the orders they received from the Central Office for Jewish Immigration. They prepared a list of deportees, registered Jewish property and issued notices regarding the date of deportation. The Jews were transferred from the school to the train station and put on a train. Upon arrival in Bohusovice, the deportees had to disembark and were forced to march the remaining 3 km to Theresienstadt.