Transport XIV/1 Ez2 from Stettin, Stettin (Stettin), Pomerania, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 06/07/1943

On May 21, 1943, Rolf Günther, Adolf Eichmann’s deputy in Department IVB4 of the RSHA, informed all local police headquarters that Heinrich Himmler had ordered the completion of all deportations of Jews from the Greater Reich and the Protectorate to the East and to the Theresienstadt ghetto by June 30, 1943. The new orders included several groups of Jews whose deportation had been postponed until then. These included sick and infirm Jews, Jews who were still enrolled in slave labor for the war industry, and employees of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden (Reich Association of Jews in Germany). The only exemptions were Jews who were married to non-Jews. The regulations also gave guidelines regarding the procedure of the deportations. In cases of smaller deportations that held up to 400 Jews, special cars connected to regular trains were to be used.
This transport departed from the city of Stettin (Szczecin) in Pomerania on July 5 or 6, 1943, and arrived in Theresienstadt on July 7, 1943. It was classified as a transport of individuals (Einzeltransport) and consisted of two deportees who were residents of small communities in northern Pomerania: 63 year-old Margarethe Kurtzig of Glasow, and 71 year-old Josef Richard Sommerfeld of Barth.
The deportees were probably arrested at their homes or ordered to report to the Gestapo offices in Stettin. They were registered and forced to sign a declaration, relinquishing their entire property to the State. They were presumably put under guard on a regular passenger train that went to Theresienstadt via Posen or Berlin....