Transport Dx from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 20/03/1944

On the night of March 20, 1944, a small transport of 45 people, designated "Dx", left Theresienstadt. There is little information regarding this transport. According to the ghetto diary of Egon (Gonda) Redlich, the people on the transport were mental patients from the Theresienstadt mental ward. The transport list indicates that a physician and two nurses were also on the transport. According to the diary of Willy Mahler, who worked for the transport department at the Jewish Administration (Ältestennrat), preparations for this transport were already underway on March 18. The transport may have been conducted by means of a single railway car which was attached to a regular train at the Bohusovice (Bauschowitz) station, some 3km from the ghetto. The destination of the transport remains uncertain. Theresienstadt survivor and historian H.G. Adler purports that the transport was said to be going to Celle, in the vicinity of the Bergen-Belsen camp, where transports of tuberculosis patients from other labour camps began arriving on March 27, 1944. Willy Mahler of the Transport Department, on the other hand, claims in his diary that the transport was headed for Cholm (he might have meant the extermination camp Chelmno in Poland). Another possible destination is the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where previous and subsequent transports from Theresienstadt were sent....