Transport I/79 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 20/11/1942

During the month of November the Gestapo launched five “small” transports from Berlin to Theresienstadt, each consisting of 100 persons. This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 20 November 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 67 were women and 33 were men. The average age of the deportees was 65.3. The youngest of them was 4 years old and the oldest was a 93-year-old woman. Four of the deportees were under 12, two were between the ages of 13 and 18, three of them were between 19 and 45, eight were between 46 and 60, and eighty-two 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....