Transport VIII/1, Train Da 75 from Hannover, Hannover (Hannover), Hanover, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 23/07/1942

As in earlier cases, the guidelines suggested that the Gestapo should force the local Jewish community to assist in the preparation and execution of the deportations. In accordance with this suggestion, the Hanover Gestapo started to hand out more organizational tasks to the local branch of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany. It had to inform the Jews about their imminent deportation and was supposed to send out the property declaration forms. The deportees were allowed to bring 50 Reichsmarks, one suitcase up to 50 kg of weight, an additional set of clothes, shoes, bedding, cutlery, and food for four days. The local office of the Reich Association also had to supply provisions for the deportees who were held for a few days prior to the transport in the Horticultural school in Ahlem which served as the assembly camp. As in the case of other transports, the Gestapo drew up a timetable for the transfer of the deportees to Ahlem. In a letter to the district administrators, it announced: “Attached please find a list of all Jews who are to be sent from here with the special transport on 23.7.1942. I … ask to transfer Jews from the governmental district of Hanover during the morning of 20.7. and Jews from the governmental district of Hildesheim during the morning of 21.7. to Ahlem (Israelite Horticultural School).”...