Transport, Train Da 9 from Koblenz, Koblenz (Koblenz), Rhine Province, Germany to Krasniczyn, Ghetto, Poland on 30/04/1942

The train, marked Da 9, was intended to proceed from Koblenz to Trawniki with a stop in Erfurt. Historian Alfred Gottwaldt believes that it set out on May 3; other sources place the date at April 30. It is not known whether the route of the train was revised.
The train carried 105 Jews from Koblenz, including nearly 100 who had been patients in a psychiatric hospital. One of the deportees on this transport was the poet Jakob Hans Davidsohn, known by his pen name, Jakob van Hoddis. Twelve Jews from Sinzig were also deported on this transport after having been taken to Koblenz on April 26, 1942.
The concentration and deportation of the Jews of Boppard illustrates how the Jews from many such small German localities were deported. In mid-April 1942, twenty-one of the thirty Jews in this town were ordered to report to local police headquarters situated in the municipality building adjacent to the local market. A day before the order was given. Josef Holberg was forcibly placed in charge of the transport. He received detailed orders, regarding allowances such as only one backpack per deportee, and no valuables. Local police were in charge of inspecting the deportees; they designated a Red Cross nurse to body-search the women. The deportees were then marched in three files to Bad Salzig, about five kilometers from police headquarters, guarded by two policemen in front and two others in the rear. In Bad Salzig, the dilapidated Zum Schwan Hotel served as the assembly point, i.e., a prison, for all the Jews from the St. Goar subdistrict. On April 30, 1942, the deportees were taken to the freight station in Koblenz-Lützel where, together with Jews from Koblenz and surrounding localities, they boarded a transport to the town of Izbica in the General Government....