Transport XIV/1 Ez3 from Stettin, Stettin (Stettin), Pomerania, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 20/07/1943

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 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 in Pomerania on July 19 or 20, 1943, and arrived in Theresienstadt on July 21, 1943. It was classified as a transport of individuals (Einzeltransport) and consisted of a single deportee, 42 year-old Josef Seeligsohn. In the Gestapo records he is listed as a farmer. Josef Seeligsohn was probably arrested at his home or ordered to report to the Gestapo offices in Stettin. He was forced to sign a declaration, relinquishing his entire property to the State. He was presumably put under guard on a regular passenger train that went to Theresienstadt via Posen or Berlin....