Transport VIII/3 from Hannover, Hannover (Hannover), Hanover, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 11/01/1944

On January 11, 1944, another transport left Hanover for Theresienstadt. In a letter to the head offices of the Reich Association in Berlin, the Hanover branch reported an imminent deportation to Theresienstadt that consisted of 17 people from within the wider Hanover district whose mixed marriage been ended due to divorce or death of the non-Jewish spouse. In his private correspondence with the head of the Jewish administration in Hamburg, Max Plaut, the Jewish legal advisor (Judenkonsulent) Horst Berkowitz mentioned some additional details: “A total of 19 people went from Hanover to Theresienstadt and they were sent on a normal passenger train directly from Hanover to Theresienstadt. Two men and fifteen women were from Hanover; two additional women came from Braunschweig and were added to the transport. Of the fifteen women from the Hanover district, three were from the Hildesheim sub-district. All of these persons were from mixed marriages that had ended due to death or divorce. An exemption was only granted in one case, due to the presence of two children aged 14 who lived with the Jewish mother. Such exemption was not granted in the case of adult children, even when those children had served on the battlefield.”...