Transport XVII/2 from Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Darmstadt), Hesse, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 10/02/1943

The second of four transports from Darmstadt to Theresienstadt departed on February 10, 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt two days later. There were 53 Jews on this transport. 17 of these came from Darmstadt, the others came from places like Bingen, Höchst, Mainz and Offenbach. The youngest deportee was a year old, the oldest 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, authorized it. Bruno Böhm, the head of the Darmstadt Department for Jewish Affairs in the RSHA, was responsible for organising and carrying it out....