Transport VI/7 from Hamburg, Hansestadt Hamburg (Hamburg), Hansa City of Hamburg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/06/1943

The seventh transport from Hamburg to Theresienstadt left the city on June 9, 1943. According to the Tagesbefehl of the Ghetto no. 332 (15.06.1943), it included 81 Jews. Some of these Jews had been residents of other cities (Bremen and Emden) and were brought to Hamburg for their deportation. Several days prior to the transport, all the deportees were assembled in the buildings of the Jewish community in Beneckestrasse. Their luggage, which was limited to 50 kilograms, was searched at the assembly site. They were forced to provide an inventory of their property and to sign a document transferring all their remaining assets to the Reich. On the day of the transport, the Jews were moved to the Hannoversche Bahnhof (Hanover Station), an isolated cargo station located in the harbour area, which served as embarkation point for all deportations leaving from Hamburg. They were forced to board one or two train cars, which were then attached to a regular train. The train ride took two days. This was the first transport that was routed directly into the Ghetto as the prisoners had recently completed the construction of the new railway tracks that connected the Ghetto to Bohusovice station....