Transport XII/10 from Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. Main (Wiesbaden), Hesse-Nassau, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 14/02/1945

On February 14, 1945, a month and a half before the Lindenstraße Gestapo headquarters in Frankfurt was abandoned on March 26 and American forces entered the compound, the Gestapo, together with its satellites in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, and Koblenz, organized a round-up transport that included Jews from Hessen, Thüringen, Leipzig, and the vicinity — most of whom had non-Jewish spouses — and their children. The transport set out from the Ostbahnhof (eastern railroad station) of Frankfurt am Main and comprised 159 Jews from mixed marriages (both men and women) and thirty-two children. Similarly, on February 8–9, about half of the remaining Jews in Leipzig — 143 men and women and five children, twenty-one people from surrounding localities, and 150 from Halle — received a summons from the Gestapo to report at 09:00 on February 13 to a collection point at 27 Zillerstraße. After spending the night at this location, they went by tram to the central railroad station. Although the plan prescribed a route to Theresienstadt via Dresden, the Allies’ heavy aerial bombardment on February 13–14 took the central station out of commission, forcing the deportation train to use alternative tracks that remained serviceable. The transport with its 616 Jews proceeded in this manner and reached Theresienstadt four days later on February 18. In the Theresienstadt ghetto records, the transport is referred to as XII/10, the Roman numeral XII denoting Frankfurt am Main. Everyone in this transport was liberated in Theresienstadt at the end of the war....