Transport Ev from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 28/10/1944

In previous transports, the transport orders were handed to the camp commander Karl Rahm by the Office for Settlement of the Jewish Question in Prague, who then ordered the Jewish administration of the ghetto to compile a transport list based on several criteria. However, at the time of this late transport, most of the Jewish administration had either already been sent away or were currently being transferred. According to historian H.G. Adler, the lists for the last two transports from Theresienstadt were compiled personally by camp commander Karl Rahm, by Ernst Möhs of department IV B 4 of the RSHA who arrived from Berlin, and by Hans Günther of the Office for Settlement of the Jewish Question in Prague. This transport included many department heads in Theresienstadt. The only groups that retained protection from transports were old people over the age of 70, the Danish Jews and converted Dutch Jews. The finalized list was handed to Benjamin Murmelstein, head of the Jewish administration, who was tasked with assembling the transport. On October 26, the inmates on this transport received a summons ordering them to report that night to the quarantine site (“Schleuse”) at the Hamburg Barracks. They were allowed to bring a limited amount of luggage. During quarantine, the remaining Jewish leadership was able to arrange for provisions and supplies, if only intermittently. Adler mentions that 30 people who received a summons for the previous transport and yet managed to elude it, were arrested and put on this transport....