Transport I/94 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 19/05/1943

This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 19 May 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 54 were women and 46 were men. The average age of the deportees was 47.4. The youngest of them was 4 years old and the oldest was an 87-year-old man. Six of the deportees were under 12, five of them were between the ages of 13 and 18, thirty of them were between 19 and 45, thirty-one were between 46 and 60, and twenty-seven 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....