Transport I/81 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 16/12/1942

During the month of December the Gestapo launched three “small” transports from Berlin to Theresienstadt, each consisting of 100 persons. This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 16 December 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 53 were women and 47 were men. The average age of the deportees was 57.9. The youngest of them was 2 years old and the oldest was aged 83. 7 of the deportees were under 12, 11 were between the ages of 19 and 45, 25 were between 46 and 60, and 57 of the deportees were between the ages of 61 and 85. 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....