Transport XII/8 from Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. Main (Wiesbaden), Hesse-Nassau, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 04/07/1944

A transport set out from Frankfurt am Main on July 4, 1944, and reached the Theresienstadt ghetto the next day, July 5. It comprised seven Jews, all staying at the communal “Jew House” at 10 Fichtestraße, which at this time served as an assembly point, a detention facility, and the office of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of the Jews in Germany). The train reached its destination via Dresden and Prague. We have no contemporary documentation about this transport; most of the details that we know were reported by Nelly Hörr in a trial against Gestapo members in 1964–1965. Her number on this transport was XII/8-4. She had lost her non-Jewish husband in an air raid on the city and had to move to the assembly point on Fichtestraße. She testified that Kriminalsekretär Schmidt had notified the Jews of the impending transport. A Gestapo operative from Wiesbaden led them to the special car that had been coupled to a regular passenger train and guarded them until they reached Theresienstadt where he handed them over to SS members and Czech gendarmes. An excerpt of Nelly Hörr’s testimony follows:...