Transport XIII/5Ez2 from Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Wuerttemberg, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 28/06/1944

Following the large transports from Stuttgart in 1942, the number of Jews in Stuttgart remained very low, numbering around 150 after January 1944. 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. This transport with one person aboard arrived in Theresienstadt on June 29, 1944. The deportee was Betty Lina Sattel (b. 19 October 1870 under the name Moses in Wiesbaden). She had lived in Mannheim before her deportation, but her last address was a hamlet in the vicinity of Landshut, Bavaria....