Transport II/27 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 20/04/1943

On the transport which left Munich on April 20 1943 and arrived a day later in Theresienstadt, Munich’s Gestapo anticipated the stricter guidelines that were about to issued in May. Contrary to the laws at the time, a few persons whose Aryan partner had died or divorced and one person of mixed ancestry were deported.
The transport consisted of 18 Jews, nearly all female. 14 Jews came from Munich, among them nine from Lindwurmstrasse No. 125 (today listed as No. 127). 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. Three of the deportees came from Augsburg and one person from Bad Tölz, 60 kilometers south of Munich. They were taken to Munich prior to deportation.
Seven of the 18 deportees were stateless having formerly held Hungarian, Slovakian or Turkish citizenship. Two still had their Slovakian passports and one retained Romanian citizenship. Non-German citizenship had saved most of these people from previous deportations. Several of them were either partners in mixed marriages or had been divorced or bereaved of their non-Jewish partners....