Transport, Train DmW 311 from Moenchengladbach, München Gladbach (Düsseldorf), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/09/1943

The fourth transport from Düsseldorf to Theresienstadt consisted of nine Jews who had managed to survive until then with the help of several Germans, two of whom were recognized in Israel after the Holocaust as Righteous among the Nations. These nine Jews had fallen into the Gestapo’s clutches at roughly the same time and were aggregated in one small transport for this reason. Although the transport was planned on relatively short notice, the Gestapo had evidently been waiting for this opportunity: local Gestapo operatives knew that these Jews had not been swept up in previous deportations and kept them under constant surveillance. The transport set out from Essen on September 9, 1943, and reached Theresienstadt the next day. A memorandum from Gestapo headquarters in Düsseldorf, dated August 30, 1943, specified the plan for the journey: the regular Dm train, no. 311, departed from Essen at 9:44 a.m. and reached Dresden at 10:16 p.m.. It departed from Dresden at 0:15 a.m. and reached Theresienstadt at 2:57 a.m. Its original date of departure had been September 6 but on September 2 it was postponed to September 9, evidently so that Marianne Strauß, who had eluded the Gestapo men who had come to arrest her, could be included in it. On September 6, 1943, Gestapo headquarters in Düsseldorf advised the Mönchengladbach central railroad station of “the implementation of a prisoner transport” and issued the following clarification:...