Transport XVI/6 from Leipzig, Leipzig (Leipzig), Saxony, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 12/02/1945

The transport left Leipzig for Theresienstadt on February 11 or 12, 1945. It consisted of 55 Jews. The transport included people categorized by the Nazi authorities as “half Jews”, who were no longer protected from deportation because their non-Jewish spouses had either died or divorced them. If the non-Jewish spouse of a mixed marriage had died, the offspring of such marriages was now also destined for deportation. Following this transport Leipzig was considered “judenrein”. With the exception of the “Einzeltransporte” (transports of individuals), 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 transport was likely conducted by regular train under guard. 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. The mayor of Leipzig, Alfred Freyberg, and Stadtamtmann (City Councellor) Kurt Voigt, who had senior responsibilities in Leipzig’s Judenstelle, may have helped in organizing this transport....