Transport XIV/3 Ez1 from Stettin, Stettin (Stettin), Pomerania, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/02/1944

In 1944, Germany was constantly losing ground on the eastern front while its population centers were subject to constant heavy aerial bombardments. In spite of this however, the deportation of Jews from German cities did not stop. On December 18, 1943, a circular signed by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller was sent out to all Sipo (Security Police) local headquarters. It permitted the deportation of Jews whose marriage to non-Jews had terminated due to divorce or death of the non-Jewish spouse. This transport departed from the city of Stettin in Pomerania on February 8 or 9, 1944, and arrived in Theresienstadt on February 10, 1944. It was classified as a transport of individuals (Einzeltransport), and consisted of a single deportee, 57 year-old Ernestine Oehlrich née Bielsky, resident of the town of Gollnow (Goleniow). Ernestine Oherlich was probably arrested at her home or ordered to report to the Gestapo offices in Stettin. She was forced to sign a declaration, relinquishing her entire property to the State. She was presumably put under guard on a regular passenger train that went to Theresienstadt via Posen or Berlin....