Transport XVI/2 from Leipzig, Leipzig (Leipzig), Saxony, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 18/06/1943

The transport left Leipzig for Theresienstadt on June 17 or 18, 1943. It consisted of 18 Jews altogether, twelve from Leipzig, five from nearby Halle, and one from Merseburg. The Head of the Gestapo of Leipzig, Karl Fistler, organized this transport with the forced cooperation of the Leipzig Jewish community. Dr. Fritz Grunsfeld, the administrative director of the Leipzig’s Jewish community, was among the deportees with his family. Prior to his deportation, it had been his responsibility to provide lists of local Jews destined for deportation according to criteria such as age groups, all specified by the local Gestapo. Following Dr. Grunsfeld’s deportation, this task was transferred to a ‘new’ middleman from the Jewish community. The director of Halle’s Jewish community, Leo Hirsch, was also on this transport, as was Dr. Otto Michael, the last head doctor of Leipzig’s former Jewish hospital....