Transport Cg from Pardubice, Pardubice, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/12/1942

Transport Cg left Pardubice for the Theresienstadt Ghetto on December 9, 1942. It consisted of 606 Jews, residents from Pardubice from and several neighboring towns. Among theses were Chrudim, Vysoke Myto, Luze (Lusche), Policka (Politschka), Hermanuv Mestec (Mermannstädtl) and Holice (Holitz). Prior to the train’s departure, several staff members of the Prague Jewish community Transports Department arrived in Pardubice 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, issued notices regarding the date of deportation and assisted in packing and carrying luggage. From the assembly site, the deportees were transferred to the train station and put on a train. Upon its arrival in Bohusovice, the Jews had to disembark and were forced to march the remaining 3 km to Theresienstadt.