Transport Dc from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/06/1943

This transport, designated "Dc", left Prague for Theresienstadt on June 9, 1943. According to survivors of this transport, the Gestapo had served notice of the deportation on one of the three days preceding the operation. Eva Herrmannova (b. 1929 in Vienna) testified in 1996 that, as the deportees made their way to the collection point in Prague, a local resident stepped forward and shouted,”It’s good that you’re finally leaving.“ The Jews designated for deportation were assembled at the Messepalais fairgrounds in the Holesovice quarter of Prague and housed in filthy, unhygienic barracks, guarded by Czech police on the outside and SS on the inside. There, they went through a registration process and were forced to declare their personal property and hand over their apartment keys, valuables, cash, and other items in their posessions. During this time, many deportees underwent violent interrogations at the hands of the SS. The Nazis required the Jewish community of Prague to run a Transports Department to document registry records. In these records the names and addresses of most of the deportees at the assembly site were listed. They indicate that the first deportee (Else Tellisch, b. 1896) arrived at the assembly site as early as May 26....