Transport II/32 Ez2 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 23/05/1944

This transport with one person aboard arrived in Theresienstadt on May 23, 1944. The deportee was Mika Marie Strakosch (b. 22 April 1875 in Vienna). She was taken from Castle Banz, a monastery in Bad Staffelstein, about 95 kilometers north of Nuremberg. It is not known if she was taken from Castle Banz to Munich prior to her deportation or if she was deported via Bamberg and Nuremberg, the relevant deportation center for Upper Franconia. 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 had been seized....