Transport XIII/1, Train Da 505 from Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Wuerttemberg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 22/08/1942

In 1942 the Gestapo launched one large transport from Stuttgart to Theresienstadt. A train with 20 third-class passenger cars holding 1,078 Jews left on August 22, 1942 and arrived one day later in Theresienstadt. The Gestapo ordered the train from the local Reichsbahn directorate in Stuttgart and it was provided under the signature Da 505. This was the first of nine transports from Stuttgart to Theresienstadt and it was the fourth transport following three large deportations to Riga in December 1941, to Izbica in April 1942, and to Auschwitz in July the same year. After those three transports the majority of the remaining Jews in Stuttgart were the elderly, many of them having lived in old-age homes and “Jew Houses” all over the provinces of Württemberg, Baden and Hohenzollern since 1941. Many former officials of the Royal court of Württemberg were on board the train and nearly all the inhabitants of the Jewish old-age homes in Eschenau, Tigerfeld, Weissenstein, Haigerloch, Dellmensingen, Bentheim, and the Jewish old-age home and hospital in Mannheim....