Transport Ez-St_63 from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 05/08/1943

Transport Ez-St 63 left Prague (Praha) to Theresienstadt on 05.08.1943. It consisted of 7 Jewish deportees. This transport was listed as Ez-St, the German initials for special transport of individuals (Einzelreisende Sondertransport). These transports usually consisted of the relatives of members of the Jewish council in Theresienstadt, Jews arrested by the Gestapo, or Jews who had been brought to Prague from other cities in the Protectorate. In December 1943, two of the 7 deportees, father and daughter named Alfred Cierer (born 1896) and Anna Ciererová (born 1931) were re-deported to Auschwitz on transport Ds and subsequently murdered. All 5 deportees that remained in Theresienstadt survived. In 1944, one of the women gave birth to a son in the Ghetto and was able to keep him alive until liberation.