Transport IX/8 Ez2 from Breslau, Breslau (Breslau), Silesia (Lower), Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 08/11/1944

Transport IX/8 Ez2 departed from the Odertor train station presumably on 8 November 1944, and arrived at Theresienstadt the same day. It was the last 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, Moritz Meyer, 70 years old, native of Hamburg who resided in the vicinity of Görlitz. Little is known of Special Transports such as this one. Presumably, Mr. Meyer was arrested by the Gestapo and brought to the State Police Office in Anger street, where he was detained for an unknown period of time. Prior to his deportation, he was forced to sign a declaration, relinquishing his entire property to the State. On the day of the transport, Mr. Meyer was taken to the Odertor station with his luggage. He 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)....