Transport I/96 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 16/06/1943

In June 1943 the city of Berlin was officially declared “free of Jews” ("judenrein"). 9,529 Jews (according to the Nuremberg laws definition) remained in Germany. 6,790 resided in Berlin. Most of them were spouses in mixed marriages, Jews of mixed ancestry and Jewish community personnel that worked in the Jewish hospital. In addition, more than 2000 Jews were living in hiding. Six days before this transport, on 10 June 1943, the Nazi authorities officially closed the offices of the "Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland" (Reich Association of Jews in Germany) in Oranienburger Strasse and Kantstrasse. All financial and property assets were confiscated. The only exemption was the Jewish hospital in Iranische Strasse 2-4 in Berlin-Wedding which, from March 1944, served as the assembly camp, prison, children’s home and hospital. A few Jews were still employed in the Jewish hospital but still had to face the prospect of immediate deportation. People of mixed German/Jewish ancestry, the “Geltungsjuden”, were also still allowed to live in Berlin....