Transport II/35 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 21/02/1945

This transport arrived in Theresienstadt on February 23 1945 at around noon. There were 31 Jews from Munich, of whom 18 were women and 13 were men. Historian Maximilian Strnad notes an interesting detail: Minna Maier and Rosa Krämer whose non-Jewish husbands had already died in the summer of 1944 were on board this transport. But for unknown reasons they were not immediately deported.
Thanks to numerous testimonies a lot is known about the organisation of the deportations which still took place despite the heavy war damage to Munich itself and to the railway system. It took two days to take the Jews on this transport to Theresienstadt.
As there was no assembly camp in Munich anymore, the deportees were taken from their apartments and brought to Munich’s secret State Police headquarters where most of them 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....