Transport I/107 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/02/1944

This transport departed from the Zossen train station in the late evening of 9 February and arrived in the late evening of 10 February 1944 in Theresienstadt. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 66 were women and 34 were men. The average age of the deportees was 57.3. The youngest of them was 2 years old and the oldest was aged 83. Two of the deportees were under 12, one of them was between the ages of 13 and 18, twelve of them were between 19 and 45, fourty were between 46 and 60, and fourty-five of the deportees were between the ages of 61 and 85. Although the city of Berlin had been declared "Free of Jews", the Gestapo continued to search for and arrest individual Jews that met the criteria for deportation. The deportees were brought to the assembly site, where they were detained until a larger group of Jews was assembled and the Reichsbahn had supplied one or two railway cars for their transport. Among the preferable targets of the allied bombing raids was the railway infrastructure and Anhalter Bahnhof was sometimes closed for short periods of time, until it was heavily damaged and closed permanently in February 1945. During these periods of inactivity, all trains, including the deportation trains, left from alternative locations. The testimony linked to this transport recalls the transportation in moving vans from Grosse Hamburger Strasse assembly camp to Zossen, a town about 50 km south of the center of Berlin, where they had to board two old third-class rail cars, which were connected to a regular train that left the station for Dresden. In Dresden the cars with the Jews were connected to another regular train headed for Prague...