Transport Cu, Train Da 109 from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 01/02/1943

This transport was announced in the Daily Orders issued by the Jewish leadership on January 28, 1943. Sometime later, each inmate scheduled for the transport or from the reserve list received written notice of their assignment to a “work transport”, ordering them to report on the day of the transport to the assembly site, the quarantine (Schleuse), which was located at the Aussig barracks. They were allowed to bring a limited amount of luggage, usually one suitcase per person. The inmates, who had received identification numbers upon their deportation to Theresienstadt, were now given new identification numbers which they had to hang around their necks. During quarantine, the Jewish leadership was able to intermittently arrange provisions and supplies for the inmates. The transport, designated “Cu”, departed from Theresienstadt on February 1, 1943 and was the last of a series of five transports. On board were 1,001 men, women and children. It arrived in Auschwitz the next day, on February 2. All those on board were previously deported from the Protectorate; of these, 426 arrived in Theresienstadt on transport “Cp” from Uhersky Brod on January 31, 1943, and had presumably remained in quarantine since their arrival, effectively leaving Theresienstadt without having entered it. 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. Those unable to march were taken with the heavier luggage by truck or by man-drawn carts....