Transport I/92 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 17/05/1943

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 17 May 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 55 were women and 45 were men. The average age of the deportees was 41.7. The youngest of them was an infant, less than a year old, and the oldest was aged 80. Ten of the deportees were under 12, nine of them were between the ages of 13 and 18, thirty-three of them were between 19 and 45, twenty-nine were between 46 and 60, and nineteen 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....