Transport II/29 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 24/06/1943

There were ten Jews on the transport which arrived in Theresienstadt on June 25, 1943. Nine had been living in the building that belonged to the Jewish community at Lindwurmstrasse No. 125 (today listed as number 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. One stateless person was taken from the Vinzentiusanstalt, a Catholic charity institution, at No. 10 Klarastrasse. Two of the deportees held Slovakian citizenship which had saved them from previous deportations. Shortly before the deportation, the Jewish community had officially ceased to exist and the majority of these deportees had either worked for the Jewish community or was married to a non-Jew. From then on until the end of the war, Theodor Koroncyk, who was married to a non-Jewish woman, served as the representative of the Reich’s Association of Jews in Germany to the Gestapo and took on all the remaining tasks of the extremely small community of Jews, most of whom were married to non-Jews.
As there was no assembly camp in Munich anymore, the deportees were taken from their apartments and brought to Munich’s police headquarters in Ettstrasse where they were jailed for a few days prior to the deportation. They were searched and their last valuables were confiscated. The deportees had to endure bureaucratic procedures and undergo the final stages of expropriation. Their declarations of property were collected and they were informed that because they were “enemies of the Reich” their assets had been seized.
On the morning of June 24, the day of deportation, they were taken to the train stations where the transports departed for Theresienstadt. These were Munich’s central train station and the freight train station in the Munich-Laim district. It is still disputed whether the majority of transports left from Munich’s central station or from Munich Laim station. Historian Andreas Heusler argues that the majority left from the central station....