Transport from Luxembourg, Luxembourg to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 06/04/1943

The Luxembourg Gestapo sent out the last large transport from Luxembourg on April 6, 1943 with ninety-seven Jews aboard. The instructions for the deportation had been sent by the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office) to Otto Schmalz, head of the Jewish affairs desk in the Einsatzkommando (EK) of the Sipo (Security Police) and the SD (Security Service) in Luxembourg. The deportation list was passed on to the Civil Administration (CdZ). These two authorities collaborated in all matters pertaining to the deportation and dispossession of Jews. This transport, like the previous transports from Luxembourg, departed from an assembly point the abandoned monastery of Fünfbrunnen. On a track that bisected the valley nearby, a “special train” waited in an exposed area. The train consisted of boxcars and one passenger car. The latter was reserved, of course, for the deportation train’s guard detail. The authorities required each deportee to bring 50 Reichsmarks to cover the cost of travel. The deportees paid the Gestapo 4,860 Reichsmarks for the journey, effectively financing their deportation and extermination....