Transport III/7 from Koeln, Köln (Köln), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 02/10/1942

This transport was the seventh transport from Cologne to Theresienstadt. It departed from Cologne-Deutz-Tief train station on October 2 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt on October 3 1942. Upon arrival it was given the reference III/7 in the ghetto listings where the Roman numeral III refers to Cologne. It consisted of 42 Jews, 26 of whom were women and 16 were men. The average age of the deportees was 55. The oldest deportee was a 93 year old woman. All of the deportees had been living in assembly camps before they were deported to Theresienstadt. Many of them were Jews from mixed-marriages. The transport also included the radiologist Dr. Julius Bier, born 1887 who had been on the board of the Reichsvereinigung (Reich Association of the Jews in Germany). Bier was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz in October 1944 and was murdered there.