On the morning of the deportation day, June 5 1942, the patients herded into the removal vans from the hospital in Hermann-Schmid-Strasse 5-7 to the southern railway station which was about one kilometer away. Several Gestapo members and members of the uniformed police accompanied the transport.
There, one second-class passenger car awaited them which was shunted to Munich’s central station and then attached to a regular, scheduled passenger train that left the station every day at around 12:00 for Marktredwitz. The car was then attached to several other local passenger trains in succession which travelled via Moosach, Freising, Landshut, Regensburg, Schwandorf, Marktredwitz, Eger, Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) and Usti nad Labem (Aussig) to Bohusovice (Bauschowitz), where it finally arrived a day later.
The deportees were taken off the train at Bohusovice station and forced by the awaiting SS personnel and Czech gendarmerie to walk the approximate 3 km to Theresienstadt, carrying their backpacks. Only people who were unable to walk were taken in trucks....