Transport II/18 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 22/07/1942

This transport departed from Munich on July 22 1942 and arrived a day later in Theresienstadt. The transport consisted of 50 elderly Jews, the majority of them female. Seven Jews were taken from Lindwurmstrasse 125 (today listed as No. 127) to Milbertshofen. That building – ceded by the local NSDAP branch to the Jews – had provided shelter for the Jewish community since 1938, when the synagogue and community buildings in Herzog-Max-Strasse had been destroyed. A prayer room and office space had been set up. From here the Jewish community sent out the deportation orders. Many Jews moved to that building and lived there in crowded conditions after they had been forced out of their apartments. Sixteen persons had been living in the Berg am Laim camp, and one person came from Grafing, a town about 35 kilometers east of Munich. According to historian Alfred Gottwaldt, there were 16 survivors. The Gestapo had forced Munich’s Jewish community to assist with organizing the transports. A card index with the names and addresses of all Munich’s Jews existed in triplicate at the Aryanization department, the office of the Jewish community and at Munich’s Gestapo headquarters. This index was used to assemble the different transports. The Gestapo determined the criteria of the transports based upon age, ability to work and other factors. About a week before the planned transport, the Gestapo instructed the Jewish community to inform the victims of their forthcoming “evacuation” to Theresienstadt....