Transport II/32 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 19/01/1944

This transport arrived in Theresienstadt on January 20,1944. On board were seven elderly Jews (six women, one man) from Regensburg, a town about 120 kilometres north of Munich. It is not known if they were taken from Regensburg to Munich prior to their deportation. If they were deported from Regensburg to Theresienstadt, they would have travelled via Marktredwitz, Eger, Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) and Usti nad Labem (Aussig) to their final destination at Theresienstadt, arriving a day later. This transport is one of a few transports in 1944 about which there is almost no information available besides the names and addresses of the deportees.
As there was no assembly camp anymore, the deportees were taken from their apartments and brought to the police station where they were jailed for a few days prior to 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.
Guarded and accompanied by Gestapo members and members of the uniformed police, the deportees were ordered to board one second-class passenger car at the station. If it left from Munich central station the car was connected to a regular, scheduled passenger train that left Munich for Marktredwitz. The car was then attached to several other local passenger trains in succession and travelled via Moosach, Freising, Landshut, Regensburg, Schwandorf, Marktredwitz, Eger, Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) and Usti nad Labem (Aussig) to Theresienstadt, where it finally arrived a day later. If it left from Munich Laim freight station, the car would have been shunted to Munich central station, from where the procedure would be as above....