Transport from Praha, Praha Hlavni Mesto, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 20/10/1944

The transport described here set out in October 1944 with one woman, Elisabeth Schwarz (b. 1923 in Vienna). It reached Theresienstadt but, unlike previous transports, it was not designated by a code for reasons that are unclear. Elisabeth died in Theresienstadt on May 2, 1945. On May 8, Red Army forces liberated the camp.

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....