Transport XIII/2 from Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Wuerttemberg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 16/04/1943

This transport consisted of 20 Jews, twelve women and eight men. The oldest deportee was 94 years old and the youngest was 20. The majority (13 persons were from Stuttgart, four of them had lived in a “Judenhaus” in Eberhardstrasse 1, and five had lived in the building of the Jewish community in Hospitalerstrasse 36. One deportee came from Heilbronn, one from Ulm, one from Rexingen, one from Mannheim and four were from Buttenhausen. The Jews were told to be ready on the morning of April 14 or 15 for the transport to Theresienstadt.
On the day of deportation, April 16, 1943, the deportees were assembled in the building of the Jewish community in Hospitalstrasse. There they had to endure bureaucratic procedures and undergo the final stages of expropriation. Their luggage and belongings were searched and their valuables were confiscated. Their declarations of property (Vermögenserklärung) were collected and the Jews were informed that because they were deemed “enemies of the Reich” all their assets and property had been seized by the government. The devastating result of an air raid, which took place on the night of April 14, 1943 made the departure from Stuttgart impossible. So they were taken from the assembly point to the station in Fellbach, a city bordering Stuttgart to the northeast which was about 10 kilometers away.
At the station, a third-class passenger car awaited them and the deportees were ordered to board it. Every transport was accompanied by Gestapo men or members of the uniformed police. Upon leaving Stuttgart the car was connected to a regular scheduled passenger train which in turn was attached to several other local passenger trains. It travelled via Aalen, Ansbach, Nuremberg, Eger, Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) and Usti nad Labem (Aussig) to Bohusovice (Bauschowitz), where it finally arrived on April 17, 1943....