Transport I/2 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 04/06/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 4 June 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 57 were women and 43 were men. The average age of the deportees was 78. The youngest was 53 years old and the oldest was aged 89. Three of the deportees were between the ages of 46 and 60, and 88 of the deportees were between the ages of 61 and 85. Nine of the deportees were over 85 years old. Ninety four of the deportees were residents of the old age home in Grosse Hamburger Strasse which was being closed down to establish a Sammellager (assembly camp) instead. On 4 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 marched a few hundred meters to 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 two old third-class rail cars ordered from the Reichsbahn. The cars were connected to a regular, scheduled passenger train that left the train 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 cars with the Jews were connected to another regular train headed for Prague. The train's route took the deportees from Berlin to Dresden and along the river Elbe to Decin (Tetschen), Usti nad Labem (Aussig) and finally to Bohusovice (Bauschowitz). The deportees were taken off the train at the Bohusovice station and forced by the awaiting SS personnel and Czech gendarmerie to walk the approximate 3 km to Theresienstadt, carrying their backpacks. Only people who were unable to walk were taken in trucks....