Transport I/17 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 07/07/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 7 July 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 69 were women and 31 were men. The average age of the deportees was 69.3. The youngest was a 5 year-old girl, and the oldest was an 88 year-old woman. Four of them were between the ages of 19 and 45, six between 46 and 60, eighty six between the ages of 61 and 85, and three of the deportees were over 85 years old. Among the deportees was five year-old Bettina Nebel (b. 1 October 1936 in Berlin). Until her deportation, she lived with her mother Esther. They spent two years in Ghetto Theresienstadt and on 9 October 1944 they were transferred to Auschwitz on transport Ep. Upon their arrival, Bettina and her mother were transferred straight to the gas chambers where they were murdered. The deportees were ordered to appear at the assembly camp in Grosse Hamburger Strasse or were taken from their homes by the Gestapo. A couple of Gestapo men, members of the Jewish desk, would usually show up, in order to round up the Jews destined for deportation. The Jews were requested to hand over the apartments in tidy form, after they had paid all taxes. The Gestapo men searched the deportees’ luggage, and the apartment, and often confiscated valuables. Subsequently they sealed the apartments. Jewish wardens who assisted the deportees in packing and carrying their belongings accompanied the Gestapo men. Trucks drove the Jews to the assembly site. This process usually took place one day prior to the actual deportation. At the assembly site the Jews were forced to sign a declaration, authorizing the transfer of their property to the state....