Transport from Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 16/04/1943

On April 16, 1943 the eleventh transport left Thessaloniki. 2,800 Jews were included in this transport. The Jews were deported to Auschwitz where they arrived on April 22. Yehoshua Bracha recalls the journey: “We boarded the cattle cars, horse wagons. People were sitting one on top of the other...it was very difficult to sit down, there was no room. The doors were sealed, only two small windows for air. No water, nothing. Food, only what we had, what the parents had brought with them. We arrived in Auschwitz at night, it was dark.” Upon arrival at the camp, 255 men were admitted into the camp and tattooed with numbers 117199-117453. 413 women were also admitted and tattooed with the numbers 42038-42450. The remaining 2,132 Jews were murdered in the gas chambers immediately upon arrival.