Transport P from Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Riga, Rigas, Vidzeme, Latvia on 15/01/1942

Just like the first transport which left Theresienstadt on January 9, this second transport was also bound for Riga. The transport orders were handed to the camp commander, Siegfried Seidl from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung) in Prague, who passed them on to the Jewish leadership of the ghetto (Ältestenrat). When the first transport had just left Theresienstadt on January 9, the Jewish Council announced in the Daily Order (Tagesbefehl) Nr. 22 that further transports "to the East" ("nach dem Osten") would follow. On January 10, Eva Roubickova, a teenager in Theresienstadt, noted in her diary: "Another transport is going to Poland. Nobody knows for sure where in Poland they're going. Some people say Riga, others say Josefstadt. [...]. It's a disaster." Her diary entries on the following days make clear that the summons for this transport caused chaos, and that some of the deportees only had three hours to prepare for departure. The transport, designated “P”, departed from Theresienstadt on January 15, 1942. At least 1.000 Theresienstadt inmates were on board, which mostly had been deported to Theresienstadt from Prague and Brno. The average age was 45 years, and no one on the transport seems to have been older than 64. The youngest deportee was 7 years old....