Transport 35 from Pithiviers, Camp, France to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 21/09/1942

Train Da 901/30, carrying 1,000 Jews, pulled out of Pithiviers in the direction of Auschwitz at 6:15 a.m. on September 21. Stabsfeldwebel Ringel was tasked with guarding it. The deportees received provisions. On the same day, Horst Ahnert, deputy to Heinz Rothke at the Jewish Affairs Department at the Paris Sipo-SD, reported to Eichmann about the departure. According to material at the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center (CJDC) in Paris, the transport included 532 men, 462 women, and 6 whose gender was not specified. According to the manifest, which was found after the war, the Jews were distributed among the cars according to the barracks that they had inhabited in Pithiviers. Several women were deported with their children. In his testimony, Addy Fuchs described the observance of the Yom Kippur fast aboard the train on September 24: “We had nothing to eat anyway. The German guards would pass through the cars and threaten to kill everyone on the train if anyone tried to escape.” Fuchs and five other men tried to make a hole in the floor of the car under the pail with a knife, but several others noticed the noise and insisted that they stop: “You want to escape; that’s obvious. Our deaths will weigh on your conscience. Did you think about the babies, the pregnant women, and the elderly? What will they do? The Germans will kill us all.” The scheme was abandoned....