Transport Da 22 from Bendorf Rhein Sayn, Koblenz (Koblenz), Rhine Province, Germany to Sobibor, Extermination Camp, Poland on 14/06/1942

The transport set out on June 14, 1942, from the psychiatric hospital in Bendorf-Sayn, which since December 1940 should have concentrated all the Jewish psychiatric patients in Germany. The patients and staff from there accounted for most of the deportees from Koblenz and the vicinity. As the wife of the institution’s Jewish director reported in her diary: The “loading,”—I can’t call it anything else—began early today, from 7.00 am…. onward. At about 2.30 pm, the train was finally ready to move. Everybody had been loaded onto freight cars, including the staff... 60 or even 68 people in one car, which was slammed shut and locked. When I went to the post office at around 8.00 am, I saw the train standing. It broke my heart... At about 3.00 pm, the train went to Koblenz, and, at midnight—meaning nine hours of waiting! — left Lützel and headed for Köln. At the Koblenz-Lützel station, the train took in more Jews. On June 15, 1942, Schubert from Gestapo-Koblenz cabled Gestapo-Düsseldorf, reporting that the train set out at 0:00 am, with 384 Jews aboard. Knopp, the Schupo (Schutzpolizei) policeman in charge of the transport, had two copies of the list of deportees and 19,200 Reichsmarks collected from them. There were also food supplies aboard the train: 38 kg of peas, 57 kg pearl barley, 760 loaves of rye bread, and 50 kg cooking salt....