Transport from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 09/08/1944

The transport described here set out from Prague on August 9, 1944, with only one Jew aboard: Karl Böhm (b. 1891 in Batelov/Batelau-Iglau, Czechoslovakia). The Nazis wished to present Theresienstadt as a “model Jewish settlement” in order to camouflage their extermination policy against the Jews .In practice, Theresienstadt served as a transit camp. From January 1942 onward, transports headed out from this location to Riga and, later that year, also to extermination camps and murder sites including Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maly Trostenets. The last transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz departed on October 28, 1944. After entering the fortress confines, the deportees spent approximately three days in an intake area that the ghetto inhabitants called the “Schleuse.” There, they were dispossessed of all valuables that appeared on a list of contraband by the SS and Czech police. Afterwards, they were housed in severely overcrowded barracks....