Transport from Westerbork, Camp, The Netherlands to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 14/09/1943

By September 1943, the Nazis had rendered the activities of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) largely unnecessary and ceased to take it into account. In fact, by May the Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei - Security Police) demanded that 7,000 of its employees be handed over, and on September 29, 1943, the eve of Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year), some 2,000 Jews in Amsterdam—including the members and leaders of the Joodse Raad—were arrested and sent to Westerbork, thus bringing an end to the Council. On Tuesday September 14, 1943, the 76th transport from the Netherlands departed from Westerbork for Auschwitz. The train carried 1,310 deportees. According to a report written on September 20, 1943 by Alfons Werner from the BdS in The Hague the train left at 10:42. It stopped in Soltau at 19:15 where seven wagons were uncoupled. These contained 305 ‘bevorzugte Juden’ (privileged Jews) who were Werner’s responsibility and they continued to Bergen that same night. The next morning these Jews were transported by truck to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. 281 of them were taken to Theresienstadt on 25 January 1944....