Transport, Train Da 56 from Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Wuerttemberg, Germany to Izbica, Krasnystaw, Lublin, Poland on 26/04/1942

The second deportation from Stuttgart left the city on April 26, 1942 for Izbica located in the General Government and consisted of approximately 440 Jews from an especially large catchment area in Southwestern Germany including the provinces of Baden, Wurttemberg, and Hohenzollern. In addition, it carried Jews from Luxemburg, Trier and its surroundings, as well as the Palatinate area. On average, the deportees were younger than those who had been deported to Riga five months earlier. Among them were the last Jewish children from the Stuttgart area. Following this transport, many of the deportees’ elderly family members were left behind without any care or help. This caused great suffering until these elderly were also deported to Theresienstadt in August. Only the severely ill and the ailing were not deported at this time.
It is very difficult to specify the exact numbers of deportees from each town and its adjacent regions, since many Jews from the larger cities had been forcefully relocated from their apartments to Jewish homes and apartments in the countryside in 1940.
In the literature various numbers are given. Alfred Marx, the Wurttemberg representative of Reich Association of Jews in Germany, noted in 1946 that there were at least 247 Jews on board from the province of Wurttemberg (173 from Stuttgart, 14 from Ulm, 24 from Haigerloch, 7 from Göppingen), and 26 from the province of Hohenzollern....