Transport Do from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 11/09/1943

Transport “Do” set out from Prague for Theresienstadt on September 11, 1943, with fifty-three Jews on board. After entering the ghetto, the deportees spent up to three days in an intake area known in ghetto terminology as the “Schleuse”. There, they were dispossessed of all valuables that appeared on a list of contraband by SS and Czech police. Afterwards, they were housed in severely overcrowded barracks. This transport arrived on September 6, 1943 - five days after the beginning of the second wave of transports from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. Most of the deportees ( 42) were sent to Auschwitz, including fifteen who travelled in transports Dl, Dm, Dr, Ds, and Dz to the “family camp” on September 6 and 15 and December 18, 1943, and on May 15 and 18, 1944. Seventeen deportees from Transport “Do” are known to have survived the war, including seven who survived Auschwitz.