Transport Dw from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 21/03/1944

Transport "Dw" set out from Prague for Theresienstadt on March 21, 1944 with 17 Jews aboard. After entering the fortress confines, the deportees spent approximately three days in an intake area that the ghetto inhabitants called the “Schleuse.” There, they were dispossessed of all valuables that appeared on a list of contraband by the SS and Czech police. Afterwards, they were housed in barracks under severe and overcrowded conditions. Among those deported on Transport “Dw”, five were sent from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in May, September, and October of that year. Two of them survived. Twelve altogether are known to have survived the war. A thirteen-year-old boy is also known to have been liberated from Auschwitz but the time of his arrival there is not known. Among those who remained in Theresienstadt, all but two survived; one of them was murdered in late March 1945 in the “Small Fortress” at Theresienstadt.