Transport I/4 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/06/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 9 June 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 50 Jews, of whom 36 were women and 14 were men. The average age of the deportees was 72. The youngest was 39 years old and the oldest was an 89-year-old woman. Two of them were between the ages of 19 and 45, two were between the ages of 46 and 60, and forty-three were between the ages of 61 and 85. Three deportees were older than 85 years of age. Thirteen were residents of the Jewish Community House (Heimathaus) at No. 3 Gormannstrasse. Twenty six were the last members of the old-age home in Grosse Hamburger Strasse. With the evacuation of these remaining residents, the building was officially transformed into a Sammellager (assembly camp) which operated until the spring of 1944. As in previous transports, the deportees were woken up on the day of the deportation between two and three in the morning, received a simple breakfast prepared by members of 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 which transferred them 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. They were ordered to board one old third-class rail car, ordered from the Reichsbahn, which was 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 car with the Jews was connected to another regular train headed for Prague....