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....