Transport I/22 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 14/07/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 14 July 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews. Forty two were patients of the Jewish hospital located at Nos. 2-4 Iranische Strasse in the Wedding district in Berlin who were brought directly on trucks to the assembly camp or to the station. Seventy eight of the deportees were women and 22 were men. The average age of the deportees was 73.4. The youngest of them was a girl aged 12, and the oldest was 91 years old. Three of them were between the ages of 19 and 45, eight were between 46 and 60, seventy eight were aged between 61 and 85, and ten of the deportees were over 85 years old. Susanne Orenstein (b. 31 May 1930) aged 12 was among the deportees. She lived with her parents in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. They spent two years in the ghetto and on 28 September 1944 the father was sent to Auschwitz on transport Ek. He did not survive. Some time afterwards, Susanne and her mother were deported to Auschwitz on transport Et that left on 23 October, 1944. They were sent directly to the gas chambers and 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....