Transport VI/9 Ez3 from Hamburg, Hansestadt Hamburg (Hamburg), Hansa City of Hamburg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 07/1944

On February 22, 1944, a month after transport VI/9 had left Hamburg, the "Vertrauensmann" (trustee of the Jewish administration) Max Heinemann stated in a letter to the former head of the community, Max Plaut, that only 980 Jews remained in the city. He noted that the fate of 186 Jewish residents of the city was "unknown". It is likely that the majority of these Jews fell victim to the bombing raids during the summer of 1943, as the Nazis had banned them from entering air raid shelters. Very little is known about this transport, not even the date of its departure is recorded. It arrived in Theresienstadt on July 26, 1944 and included just one person named Friedel Herweg. Herweg was not a resident of Hamburg, but of Lübeck, so it is assumed that he must have been transferred to Hamburg prior to his deportation. This transport was listed in the Ghetto records as VI/9 EZ. The Roman numeral VI referred to Hamburg as city of origin, 9 stood for the ninth 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. This was the third in a series of five small EZ-deportations that were sent from Hamburg during the period between the larger VI/9- and VI/10-transports. "Einzeltransporte" were usually conducted using normal passenger trains and were often designated for Jews from mixed marriages that had been annulled due to divorce or the death of the non-Jewish spouse....