Transport I/97 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 29/06/1943

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. On 10 June 1943, the Nazi authorities had officially closed the "Reich's Association of the Jews in Germany" (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) and its offices in Oranienburger Strasse and Kantstrasse. All financial and property assets were confiscated. The only exemption was the Jewish hospital, directed by Walter Lustig, at Iranische Strasse 2-4 in Berlin-Wedding and its adjacent nursing homes, which from March 1944 served as sole assembly camp, prison, children’s home and hospital. This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 29 June 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, of whom 56 were women and 44 were men. The average age of the deportees was 42. The youngest of them was 2 years old and the oldest was an 86-year-old woman. Eleven of the deportees were under 12, four of them were between the ages of 13 and 18, fourty of them were between 19 and 45, twenty-one were between 46 and 60, and twenty-three of the deportees were between the ages of 61 and 85. On that transport were many employees of the Reichsvereinigung and also some people of mixed German/Jewish ancestry (“Geltungsjuden”)....