Transport I/1 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 02/06/1942

Prüfer forced representatives of the Jewish community to assist in the execution of the transport and gave them precise orders: this transport was to be ready on 1 June 1942 and all the deportees were to be transferred to their allotted rooms in the building by 14:00. This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 2 June 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 50 Jews, of whom 37 were women and 13 were men. The average age of the deportees was 76.5. The youngest of them was 47 years old and the oldest was a 95 year-old woman. Four of the deportees were between the ages of 46 and 60, and forty three were between the ages of 61 and 85. Three of the deportees were over 85 years old. Forty six were residents of the old age home in Grosse Hamburger Strasse which was being closed down to establish a Sammellager (assembly camp) instead. Four were medical staff. On 2 June, the day of the deportation, they were woken up between two and three in the morning, received a simple breakfast prepared by the Jewish community, and had to leave the building in Grosse Hamburger Strasse at approximately 04:00. They were marched a few hundred meters to the tram station at Monbijouplatz, where a BVG streetcar (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe - Berlin Transportation Company) awaited them. At around 05:00 they boarded the tram and were transferred expeditiously to Anhalter Bahnhof located on Schöneberger Strasse where they arrived by 05:15. There, through a side entrance, they were led to platform No. 1 and were ordered to board one old third-class rail car ordered from the Reichsbahn. The car was connected to a regular, scheduled passenger train that left the station every day at around 06:00 for Dresden, where it stopped for a few hours. On the first transports the deportees received a stew provided by the Dresden Jewish community. In Dresden the car with the Jews was connected to another regular train headed for Prague....