Transport XXIII/3 from Danzig, Danzig, Free City of Danzig to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 29/06/1943

The third of four transports sent from Danzig to Theresienstadt during the years 1942-1944 departed between June 28 and 30, 1943 – but the exact date is unknown. It arrived in Theresienstadt on July 1, 1943. The transport consisted of four people. Among them was 62 year-old David Jonas, a tailor, sportsman and union leader who had assumed the position of head of the Jewish community in Danzig after the emigration of the previous chairman, Kurt Itzig. Jonas declined the opportunity to emigrate, and was quoted as saying “I will be the last Jew to leave Danzig”. He was accompanied by his wife, 53 year-old Frieda Jonas, and his secretary, 39 year-old Hilde Friedländer who refused to emigrate on account of her elderly mother. The other person on the transport was 58 year-old Lina Schönfliess of Rosenberg (Susz). Little is known about the transport. It appears that the first three deportees resided together in the now empty Jewish old-age home at Mausegasse in the Warehouse District (Speicherinsel). Presumably, on the day of the transport, they were taken to the Main Train Station (Danzig Hauptbahnhof) and were put into a railway car. Their specific route is unknown. The train eventually arrived at the recently-constructed train station at Theresienstadt,. The transport was given the reference XXIII/3 in the Theresienstadt ghetto listings,...