Transport XII/11 from Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. Main (Wiesbaden), Hesse-Nassau, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 15/03/1945

On January 13, 1945, the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office) issued an order “to deport all able-bodied Jewish males and females from mixed marriages to Theresienstadt.” In the middle of March 1945 (around March 12–14), about ten days before Gestapo headquarters on the Lindenstraße in Frankfurt am Main was abandoned on March 26 and before American forces could enter the compound, the Gestapo dispatched the last transport comprised of only five Jews — four women and one man. In a report issued on the day of their arrival in Theresienstadt it was noted that ten names had appeared on the list of deportees and that five of them had been erased. The women who had reported for the transport were from 8 Rathausgasse and 1 Hauptstrasse. The others, evidently, did not report for deportation. Due to the heavy Allied aerial bombardment of Dresden on February 13–14, the main railroad station and the tracks were rendered totally out of commission. Accordingly, the deportation train could not take the ordinary route to Theresienstadt via Dresden; instead, it had to use alternative tracks that remained serviceable, prolonging the trip and the deportees’ suffering. Thus, the transport did not reach Theresienstadt until March 17 at 8:00 a.m....