Transport V/2 from Dresden, Dresden (Dresden Bautzen), Saxony, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 14/07/1942

The second of these transports departed from Dresden on 14 July 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt later the same day. There were 50 people on this transport. Almost all of the deportees of this transport had previously lived in the Jewish old-age home “Henriettenstift” at Günzstrasse 24 in Dresden, which the Nazis had conveniently designated as one of the “Jew Houses” in the city. The deportees were between 66 and 87 years old. Apart from Martin Mutschmann, there were other key figures involved in the execution of this transport: Henry Schmidt, the head of the Dresden Department for Jewish affairs in the RSHA, was responsible for organizing and carrying it out and was likely the person most involved in the deportations of Jews from the city. Schmidt was present in the assembly camps and even accompanied two or three transports to Theresienstadt. The guidelines recommended that Gestapo units force the Reich Association of Jews in Germany and local Jewish communities to assist in preparing the transports. In Dresden Dr. Kurt Hirschel was responsible for this task. He was the last administrative director of the city’s Jewish community until his deportation in June 1943. The Gestapo required him to provide lists of local Jews according to criteria such as age groups....