Transport XX/1 from Magdeburg, Magdeburg (Magdeburg), Saxony Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 18/11/1942

The deportation of the Jewish residents of the northern Saxony Province and the Free State of Anhalt began in April 1942, and was concluded with three relatively small transports to Theresienstadt in the fall of the same year. The first of these transports departed on November 18, 1942 and arrived on the same day. It included 73 deportees from Magdeburg, Dessau, Bernburg, and Stendal. All deportees were over 60 years of age. The deportees were notified in advance of their upcoming deportation and were ordered to report on the day of the transport to the assembly site, a hall called “Freundschaft”, located in the vicinity of the train station. After they had been counted, they were joined by deportees from neighboring localities and forced to sign a declaration that relinquished their entire property to the State. The deportees were then marched to the train station. There, they were presumably put into passenger cars which were connected to a regular train that made its way to Theresienstadt via Leipzig and Dresden. At the Bohusovice (Bauschowitz) station the deportees were taken off the train by the awaiting SS personnel and Czech gendarmerie and forced to walk the approximate 3 kilometers to Theresienstadt carrying their hand luggage....