Transport XVII/1, Train Da 520 from Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Darmstadt), Hesse, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 27/09/1942

The first of four transports from Darmstadt to Theresienstadt departed on September 27, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt one day later. There were 1,288 Jews from 76 places on the transport, including 12 from Alzey, 79 from Bad Nauheim, 68 from Bingen, 177 from Darmstadt, 21 from Friedberg, 54 from Giessen, 462 from Mainz, 98 from Offenbach, 13 from Seligenstadt, and 92 from Worms. The youngest deportee was 2 and the oldest was 95 years old, though the majority was comprised of elderly Jews. Apart from the Gauleiter (district leader) of Hesse-Nassau, Jakob Sprenger, there were other key figures involved in the execution of this transport: the head of the Gestapo offices in Darmstadt, Robert Mohr, as well as his colleagues in Giessen, Mainz and Offenbach authorized it. Bruno Böhm, the head of the Darmstadt Department for Jewish Affairs in the RSHA, and Franz Jürgen, the head of the uniformed police in Darmstadt, were responsible for organizing and carrying it out....