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Transport VII/1, Train Da 70 from Duesseldorf, Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 21/07/1942

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results.dates.deportureDate 21/07/1942 results.dates.arrivalDate 22/07/1942
On May 27, 1942, Düsseldorf headquarters reported to the RSHA by teleprinter that 154 additional Jews could be sent to the east and 1,735 to Theresienstadt.
On Friday, July 3, 1942, the RSHA sent notice to Gestapo headquarters in Düsseldorf that two transports of Jews from Düsseldorf to Theresienstadt would take place on July 21 and 25, 1942. Three days later, this notice reached the Gestapo commander in this city, Dr. Walter Albath. The next day, July 7, Rolf Günther informed Gestapo headquarters in Düsseldorf that the Reichsbann had set aside two special trains for the transports.
In early July, Department IVB 4 of the RSHA sent 1,900 property statement forms and 3,600 attachment orders to the Jews who had been designated for deportation to Auschwitz or the Theresienstadt “elders’ ghetto.” At each point of origin, the impending deportees had to sign these documents a day or two before deportation. In Wuppertal, for example, the Gestapo ordered the deportees-designate to submit at police headquarters a signed property statement by 10:00 a.m. on July 15, 1942, so that it could forward the documents to Düsseldorf by the next day....
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    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.numInTransport : 1
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.TrainNo : Da 70
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.personBegin : min: 965, max: 966
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.personEnd : min: 965, max: 966
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.beginEvent : 21/07/1942
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.endEvent : 22/07/1942
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.itemNo : 5092392
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.transportNo : VII/1