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Transport XI/2 from Muenster, Münster i. Westf. (Muenster), Westphalia, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 12/05/1943

Transport
Departure Date 12/05/1943
Eintracht
Bielefeld Freight Train Station
Passenger train
Bohusovice train station
Marched by foot
Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia
On May 12 1943 a realtively small transport with 40 Jews from Münster left for Theresienstadt. The Jews came from Münster, Bielefeld, Bochum, Dortmund, Minden, Witten and Unna. The deportees were selected according to criteria set down by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) that were issued on February 20, 1943, namely: those who were older than 65, wounded in World War I, those awarded honorary medals, or other “privileged” Jews. Only six Jews from this transport survived. Albert Daltrop, a 57 year-old lawyer and a former reserve officer during World War I was deported together with his wife on this transport. In 1965 in a trial against former Gestapo members from Münster and Bielefeld, he testified that he thought the heads of the Department for Jewish Affairs in Münster and Bielefeld, Brodesser and Pützer, had both prepared and accompanied the transport....
Overview
    No. of transports at the event : 1
    No. of deportees at departure : 40
    No. of deportees upon arrival : 7
    Date of Departure : 12/05/1943
    Date of Arrival :
    Item No. : 5092422
    Transport No. upon Arrival : XI/2