Transport Fa from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 17/11/1944

Forty Jews ranging in age from 2 - 84 were deported in the transport that set out on November 17, 1944; all survived. Those designated for deportation were assembled at the Messepalais fairgrounds in the Holesovice quarter of Prague and housed in filthy, unhygienic barracks, guarded by Czech police on the outside and SS on the inside. There, the deportees went through a registration process and were forced to declare their personal property and hand over their apartment keys, valuables, cash, and other items. During this time, many deportees also underwent violent interrogations at the hands of the SS. The deportees were led under guard — evidently on foot — to the Nádraží Prague-Bubny railroad station, about 1.5 kilometers from the assembly point....