Transport I/47 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 19/08/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 19 August 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 68 were women and 32 were men. The average age of the deportees was 76.6. The youngest was 50 years old and the oldest was 92 years old. Three of them were between the ages of 46 and 60, and ninety two were between the ages of 61 and 85. Five deportees were over 85 years old. Among the deportees was 77-year-old Dr. Johann Arnold Samter. His nephew, Jewish journalist Hermann Samter, described general conditions in Berlin, in a letter dated August 10, 1942: “Emigration is continuing rapidly. Since October 1, 70,000 people have left […]...