Transport from Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 10/04/1943

On April 10, 1943, the ninth transport left Thessaloniki. Around 3,000 Jews were included in this transport. They were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where they arrived on April 17, 1943. Abraham Aaron recalls: “We were transported in freight cars meant for horses…All we had was a little bit of food that we had taken with us, and there was a shortage of water. There was no place to relieve ourselves, it was terrible”. Aaron and the other deportees were told they were going to work for the Germans until the end of the war. They had never heard of Auschwitz until they arrived there on April 17. Upon arrival at the camp, 467 men were admitted and tattooed with numbers 115848-116314. 262 women were also admitted and tattooed with the numbers 41354-41615. The remaining Jews were murdered in the gas chambers immediately upon arrival.