Transport XVI/3 from Leipzig, Leipzig (Leipzig), Saxony, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 12/01/1944

The transport left Leipzig for Theresienstadt on January 11 or 12, 1944. It consisted of 24 Jews, among them two from Altenburg and others from the Weimar area. With the exception of the “Einzeltransporte”, none of the transports that left Leipzig for Theresienstadt originated in Leipzig. Rather, these trains came from places like Weimar and even as far as Frankfurt (am Main) and stopped in Leipzig en route to Theresienstadt to pick up the Jews from Leipzig and the vicinity. The head of the Leipzig Gestapo at that time, Karl Fistler, played a key role in organizing the transports, together with the Department of Jewish Affairs in the RSHA and Stadtamtmann (City Councellor) Kurt Voigt, who had senior responsibilities in Leipzig’s Judenstelle....