Transport I/6 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 12/06/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 12 June 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 50 Jews, of whom 38 were women and 12 were men. The average age of the deportees was 75.2. The youngest was 63 years old and the oldest was an 88 year-old woman. Forty-six of the deportees were between the ages of 61 and 85. Four were over 85 years old.
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.
Heinrich Stahl (b. 13 April 1868, Berlin-Rudow – d. 1942), who served as chairman of the Berlin Jewish community until 1940, was on this transport. Until his deportation he lived in Berlin-Schoeneberg. He was Director of the Victoria Insurance Group. Stahl was elected in 1933 as chairman of the Jewish community. In 1940 he resigned from his role as chairman and applied for an emigration certificate, but the authorities refused to issue Stahl with a passport and tracked his movements forbidding him to act in favour of Jewish matters. He and his wife were deported to Theresienstadt. There, Stahl joined the Jewish Elders Council of the ghetto and worked relentlessy until pneumonia struck him. He died at the age of 74 on 4 November 1942....