Transport XXII/5 from Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 07/02/1945

The fifth transport left Karlovy Vary to the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 7 February 1945. It consisted of 50 Jewish men, aged 19-45. According to the report compiled by the Ghetto council, these were Hungarian Jews previously employed by the Hungarian army. Based on their names as they appear in the ghetto listings, the deportees are presumed to be Hungarian Jews who were engaged in forced labor in the vicinity of Karlovy Vary. Very little is known about this transport and the deportees. It is assumed that the deportees were driven in buses or trucks from Karlovy Vary or from a nearby labor camp to Theresienstadt. In the Theresienstadt Ghetto listings the transport was recorded as XXII/5 where the Roman numeral XXII refers to Karlovy Vary. The Theresienstadt ghetto was liberated three months later, on 8 May 1945. According to historian Rudolf Wlaschek, all 50 deportees managed to survive the harsh conditions in the ghetto.