Transport VI/8Ez1 from Hamburg, Hansestadt Hamburg (Hamburg), Hansa City of Hamburg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 12/1943

Very little is known about this transport, which left Hamburg during the last days of that year. It arrived in Theresienstadt on December 22, 1943 and held just one person, a 46-year-old man by the name of Alexander Einörl. Einörl was a resident of Wilhelmshaven, so it is assumed that he must have been brought to Hamburg prior to his deportation. The transport was listed as VI/8 EZ in the Ghetto records. The Roman numeral VI referred to Hamburg as the city of origin, 8 stood for the eighth transport from the city and EZ was an abbreviation for the German term "Einzeltransport" (single transport), a term used for transports that included a small number of people. These small deportations were conducted on normal passenger trains and were often used for Jews from mixed marriages that had been annulled due to divorce or the death of the non-Jewish spouse. In Theresienstadt, many of the elderly Jewish deportees died of hunger and disease. Others were later transferred to extermination camps in the East where they were murdered. Alexander Einörl was re-deported to Auschwitz on September 29, 1944, but luckily managed to survive until liberation.