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Transport Y from Kladno, Kladno, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 22/02/1942

Transport
Departure Date 22/02/1942 Arrival Date 22/02/1942
Bohusovice train station
Marched by foot
Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia
Following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in March 1939, and the declaration of a Slovak republic on March 14, Hitler announced on March 15 the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Between 1939 and 1941 the Nazi authorities in the Protectorate carried out various anti-Jewish measures, which included the harassment of Jews and of Jewish institutions and the confiscation of property. On October 10, 1941, the newly appointed Reichsprotektor, Reinhard Heydrich, summoned several SS officers, among them Adolf Eichmann, to a meeting in Prague (Praha). Heydrich, who was also chief of the Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt - RSHA), revealed a plan to deport 5,000 Jews from the Protectorate to Eastern Europe and in addition to expel the remaining Jews of the Protectorate to an assembly camp in Bohemia. Theresienstadt, a garrison town built in the 18th century, located about 60 kilometers north of Prague, was chosen to serve as the place for concentrating the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia. Mass deportations of Jews from Prague and soon afterwards from other large cities began in late November 1941....
Overview
    No. of transports at the event : 1
    No. of deportees at departure : 800
    No. of deportees upon arrival : 800
    Date of Departure : 22/02/1942
    Date of Arrival : 22/02/1942
    Item No. : 5092577
    Transport No. upon Arrival : Y