Transport IX/8 Ez1 from Breslau, Breslau (Breslau), Silesia (Lower), Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 25/05/1944

Transport IX/8 Ez1 departed from the Odertor train station presumably on May 5 1944, and arrived at Theresienstadt the same day. It was the 11th of 12 transports meant for the elderly and otherwise privileged Jews from the province of Lower Silesia. However, this was marked a Special Transport made up of only a single deportee, Elizabeth Niggl née Ehrmann, 65 years old, native and resident of Breslau. Little is known of Special Transports such as this one. Presumably, Mrs. Niggl was arrested by the Gestapo and brought to the State Police Office in Anger Street, where she was detained for an unknown period of time. Prior to her deportation, she was forced to sign a declaration, relinquishing her entire property to the State. On the day of the transport, Mrs. Niggl was taken to the Odertor station with her luggage. She presumably entered the station through a back entrance, and was put under guard in either a passenger car or a prisoner car, which was connected to a regular passenger train. The exact time and date of the departure is unknown; the journey took 12 hours at the very least, and possibly longer. The train presumably went west, to Dresden and from there to Bohusovice (Bauschowitz) via Decin (Tetschen) and Usti nad Labem (Aussig)....