Transport I/78 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 19/11/1942

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 19 November 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 60 were women and 40 were men. The average age of the deportees was 65.1. The youngest of them was a 2-year-old boy and the oldest an 86 year old woman. Two of the deportees were under 12, seven of them were between the ages of 19 and 45, seventeen were between 46 and 60, and seventy-three of the deportees were between the ages of 61 and 85. A couple of Gestapo men from 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....