Transport XX/2 from Magdeburg, Magdeburg (Magdeburg), Saxony Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 25/11/1942

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 second of these transports departed on November 25, 1942 and arrived on the same day. It consisted of 76 deportees, all of them over the age of 50 from Magdeburg, Wernigerode, Buchholz und Jeßnitz, as well as from the town of Halberstadt, where an old and prosperous Jewish community existed up until the Nazi persecution. The deportees from Magdeburg 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....