Transport I/3 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 05/06/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on June 5, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 80 were women and 20 were men. The average age of the deportees was 42.7. The youngest was two years old and the oldest was aged 85. Eleven of the deportees were under the age of twelve. Ten of them were between the ages of 13 and 18, 29 between the ages of 19 and 45, 28 between the ages of 46 and 60, and 22 of the deportees were between 61 and 85. Twenty one 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. These elderly people, aged between 61 and 85, were a minority in this transport as most of the deportees were members of a resistance group which had attacked an anti-Semitic and anti-Communist propaganda exhibition curated by Goebbels. On 18 May 1942 the exhibition “Das Sowjetparadies” [The Soviet Paradise] was opened in the Lustgarten in Berlin and on the same day a group of resistance fighters the largest among them, the Gruppe Baum (Baum Group) headed by Herbert Baum, tried to set fire to the display. The Gruppe Baum had many Jewish members. The operation failed, the fire was extinguished and the exhibition suffered little damage, but this anti-fascist act echoed throughout Germany and the cost for the Jews of Berlin in general, and for the members of the group in particular, was very high. The Gestapo reacted very quickly and within a few days all of the members of the group were arrested, including Baum and his wife Marianne. Baum was tortured to death in prison and it took the Gestapo very little time to dismantle the whole group and sentence all its members to death except for three women who were sent to Auschwitz where they perished. In reprisal, the Gestapo conducted a large raid in Berlin on 27 May in which 500 Jews were taken hostage. 154 of them were transferred to the SS camp Lichterfelde, a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen, where they were immediately shot. An additional 96 Jews who were already imprisoned there were also shot. In all, 50 men for each of the five Jewish perpetrators who had staged the attack....