Transport XVII/3 from Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Darmstadt), Hesse, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 01/1944

Transport XVII/3 was the third of the transports from Darmstadt to Theresienstadt. It arrived in Theresienstadt on January 10, 1944 and had most likely departed Darmstadt one or two days earlier. The transport consisted of ten Jews. The youngest deportee was 51 years old, the oldest was 80.
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. Georg Dengler, the head of the Darmstadt Department of Jewish Affairs in the RSHA, was responsible for organising and carrying it out.
The RSHA’s guidelines recommended that Gestapo units force the Reich Association of Jews in Germany and local Jewish communities to assist in preparing the transports. As soon as the Gestapo obtained the lists, they would pass copies to their local Department of Jewish Affairs, known in German as “Judenstelle”. Those Jews selected for deportation were notified in writing....