Transport II/30 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 13/01/1944

This transport departed from Munich on January 13, 1944 and arrived a day later in Theresienstadt. On board the transport were 33 persons the majority of whom was female. Nineteen came from Munich, one of whom was a woman who had been the last to live in the building that belonged to the Jewish community on Lindwurmstrasse 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. On this transport, one person was from Planegg, today a part of Munich, one from Gauting, south-west of Munich, one from Ammerland and one from Holzhausen, both communities located next to Lake Starnberg. One person on the transport had been taken from prison, four came from Augsburg, two from Fellheim, and the others from Lindau (1), Lindenberg im Allgäu (1) and Neu-Ulm (1). These people were taken to Munich prior to the deportation. Most of the deportees from Munich had been Jewish partners in mixed marriages. As there was no assembly camp in Munich anymore, the deportees were taken from their apartments and brought to the police station, 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 January 13, the day of deportation, they were taken in the morning 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....