Transport I/108 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 23/02/1944

This transport, the last transport from Grosse Hamburger Strasse assembly camp, departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 23 February 1944 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 73 Jews, of whom 42 were women and 31 were men. The average age of the deportees was 45.5. The youngest of them was an infant, less than a year old and the oldest was aged 76. Nine of the deportees were under 12, two of them were between the ages of 13 and 18, sixteen of them were between 19 and 45, thirty were between 46 and 60, and sixteen 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. On the day of the transport, the deportees had to leave the assembly camp in Grosse Hamburger Strasse. They were taken to Anhalter Bahnhof located on Schöneberger Strasse or to another spot along the adjoining tracks. There they were ordered to board one or 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....