Transport V/3 from Dresden, Dresden (Dresden Bautzen), Saxony, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 28/07/1942

The third of these transports departed from Dresden on 28 July 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt later the same day. There were 50 people on this transport, including one woman from the town of Radebeul. It is not certain how and when she got to Dresden. Prior to the deportation the majority had been forced to live in houses designated for Jews only, the “Judenhäuser”. The deportees were between 12 and 89 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 different criteria such as age groups....