Transport XVIII/7 from Oppeln, Oppeln (Oppeln), Silesia (Upper), Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 19/01/1944

This Transport departed from the Oppeln train station on January 20, 1944 and arrived in Theresienstadt on the same day It was the ninth of 10 transports comprising of elderly Jews and others from the province of Upper Silesia who had until now been protected from deportation, and the last transport to depart from Oppeln. The transport consisted of nine Jews, three of them from Oppeln, two from Ratibor, and the rest from smaller Upper Silesian towns. The oldest among the deportees was 95 year-old Fanny Singer.
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....