Transport III/9 from Koeln, Köln (Köln), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 01/08/1943

This transport was the ninth transport from Cologne to Theresienstadt. It left on August 1 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt on the same day. It was given the reference III/9. The transport consisted of 45 Jews of whom 31 were women and 14 were men. The average age of the deportees was 62 and a half. The youngest deportee was a 10 year old girl, and the oldest was a 92 year old woman. According to the deportation list, only people from the assembly camp in Cologne-Muengersdorf were among the deportees. On 5 August 1943, the Swiss Consul Franz Rudolf von Weiss reported that the Gestapo had now begun to deport so-called ‘half Aryans’: "In Cologne it was handled very drastically. The first families of “Mischlinge” (children of a Jewish and a non-Jewish parent) left the city last Sunday. They were assembled in the convention hall and were only allowed to take a few things with them. The Arian parent also had to leave Cologne and go to Theresienstadt with the other members of the family. They had to leave their apartments in their original condition to be available for Aryan families who had lost their homes during the air raids. Naturally this action made the family very angry and bitter - as they sensed their fate."