Transport II/32 Ez1 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 07/04/1944

This transport with one person aboard arrived in Theresienstadt on April 7, 1944. The deportee was Else Countess of Schlitz. She was taken from Schlattan, a hamlet next to Garmisch-Partenkirchen (about 90 kilometres south of Munich) to Theresienstadt. She was born in 1882 in Kassel and was married to Rudolf Graf von Schlitz gen. von Görtz und von Wrisberg, an officer who had received the highest honours in WWI. Her husband died in 1934 and she was deported. In Theresienstadt she was among the “prominent” inhabitants. Being “prominent” she had relatively better living conditions and also received relatively better food. The countess survived Theresienstadt and died in 1968.
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, she was taken from her residence and brought to the police station where she was jailed for a few days prior to deportation. Her luggage was searched and her last valuables were confiscated. She had to endure bureaucratic procedures and undergo the final stages of expropriation. Her declaration of property was collected and she was informed that because she was “an enemy of the Reich” her assets were being seized....