Transport VI/10 from Hamburg, Hansestadt Hamburg (Hamburg), Hansa City of Hamburg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 14/02/1945

The tenth transport from Hamburg to Theresienstadt left the city on February 14, 1945. It consisted of 294 Jews. About 30% of the deportees on board came from towns in the vicinity of Hamburg and from other cities including Neumünster, Kiel, Bremen, Osnabrück, Delmenhorst, Leer, Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven and Emden. They were ordered to report to the assembly site in the building of the former Talmud-Tora-School at Grindelhof 30 by 2 pm on February 14, for an "external work assignment". Their luggage, which was limited to 50 kilograms, was searched at the collection point. The deportees were forced to provide an inventory of their remaining property and to sign a document transferring all their remaining assets to the Reich. On the day of the transport, the Jews were transported to the Hannoversche Bahnhof (Hanover Station), an isolated cargo station located in the harbor area, which served as the embarkation point for all the deportations from Hamburg. They were forced to board several train cars which were then attached to a regular train. Instead of one or two days, the transport took a full nine days to arrive at its destination. It can be assumed that the delay was at least partly caused by the bombing of Dresden. This series of air raids, which lasted from the February 13-15, destroyed large parts of the city and severely damaged the railway system in the area. Dresden was an important railway hub and most of the deportation trains to Theresienstadt passed through the city....