Transport I/30 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 24/07/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 24 July 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 61 were women and 39 were men. The average age of the deportees was 69.9. The youngest was a 15 years old boy. Ten among them were between 46 and 60 and eighty eight between the ages of 61 and 85.
The oldest deportee was 90 years old, Charlotte Marcusy, nee Saft. She was born on 3 January 1852 in Kempen, Germany. Until her deportation she lived in Bayerische Strasse 20. On 17 September, 1942, two months after she had arrived, she died in Theresienstadt.
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....