Transport XIII/5 from Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Wuerttemberg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 11/01/1944

This transport was the ninth that departed from Stuttgart and the fifth from the city headed for Theresienstadt. Following the large transports from Stuttgart in 1942, the number of Jews in Stuttgart and area remained very low, numbering less than 200 after this transport. The majority of people in the last transports from Stuttgart and the provinces of Wuerttemberg and Hohenzollern to Theresienstadt were Jews from ‘mixed marriages’ who were scheduled for deportation because their non-Jewish partner had either died or divorced. In February 1943 the RSHA had sent out new deportation guidelines to the local State Police offices. From then on, working in forced labour did not protect anyone from deportation. However, Jewish partners in existing mixed marriages and “Geltungsjuden” (people of mixed ancestry) were still exempt. In May 1943 the guidelines for deportation intensified as Heinrich Himmler ordered that all Jews defined as such according to the Nuremberg laws and still living in Germany had to be deported and on December 18, 1943, Chief of Gestapo Heinrich Müller authorized the deportation of Jews whose non-Jewish spouse had either divorced or died....