Transport XVIII/6 from Oppeln, Oppeln (Oppeln), Silesia (Upper), Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 30/06/1943

This Transport departed from the Oppeln train station on June 30, 1943 and arrived at Theresienstadt on the same day. It was the sixth of 10 transports comprising of elderly Jews and others from the province of Upper Silesia who had until now been protected from deportation. The transport consisted of five Jews: 84 year-old Julie Gerstel of Oberglogau, 30 year-old Artur Krause, a glassworker from Neisse, 19 year-old Hermann Proskauer of Oppeln, 65 year-old Harry Wolff, chairman of the Jewish community in Oppeln, and his assistant, 32 year-old Fritz Guttmann. Presumably, several days prior to the deportation, the deportees were notified by the Gestapo. They were ordered to report to an assembly point in Oppeln. They were ordered to settle their bills and debts, and bring up to 10kg of luggage and the keys to their apartments. At the assembly point, they were registered and forced to sign a declaration relinquishing their entire property to the state....