Transport Ed from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 16/06/1944

The transport described here set out from Prague for Theresienstadt on June 16, 1944. When it reached its destination it was registered under the designation "Ed" in the ghetto records. According to the documentation, 25 Jews were aboard this transport. Fifteen of them were sent to Auschwitz that year where they were all murdered including a pair of baby girls aged two and a half. Eight deportees are known to have survived the war. However, there are no survivor testimonies or detailed archive material regarding this transport. 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.