Transport II/7 from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 18/06/1942

This transport departed from Munich on June 18 1942 and arrived a day later in Theresienstadt. The transport consisted of 50 elderly Jews, all of them from Munich.
One person had been living in the Jewish old-age home in Klenzestrasse 4, and four in Berg am Laim.
The Gestapo had forced Munich’s Jewish community to assist with organizing the transports. A card index with the names and addresses of all Munich’s Jews existed in triplicate at the Aryanization department, the office of the Jewish community and at Munich’s Gestapo headquarters. This index was used to assemble the different transports. The Gestapo determined the criteria of the transports based upon age, ability to work and other factors. About a week before the planned transport, the Gestapo instructed the Jewish community to inform the victims of their forthcoming “evacuation” to Theresienstadt....