Transport Dy from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 26/04/1944

Transport "Dy" set out from Prague to Theresienstadt on April 26, 1944. Twenty Jews were aboard, ranging in age from a 71 year-old woman to a 6 year-old girl. 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 the deportees on Transport "Dy", 11 were sent from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz where they were all murdered. Seven were sent to the “family camp” on Transport "Eb" on May 18, 1944 in an operation that deported 2,500 Jews. Among those who remained in Theresienstadt, 7 survived and 2 perished. Moric Loewi (b. 1876) died in Theresienstadt on May 14, 1945 after the camp was liberated.