Transport 30 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 10/07/1942

Transport No. 30 departed at 7:08 pm from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) on July 10, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt on July 11. The transport consisted of 1,000 Jews, made up mainly of elderly Jewish deportees. 961 deportees were older than 61, the average age on the transport was 73 years. Six armed policemen (Schutzpolizei) under the command of First lieutenant Josef Tremer were assigned to guard the Jewish deportees throughout the journey. The guards had all reported by 11 am at the station where the deportees had assembled. The train's route took it through Vienna’s Nordbahnhof, Floridsdorf, Jedlersdorf, Stockerau, Absdorf-Hippersdorf, Gmuend, Tabor, Prague (Praha) and Bohusovice. At the rail station in Bohusovice, the Jews were taken off the train and forced to make their way to Theresienstadt on foot, a distance of about 3 km. The transport was given the reference IV/3 in the Theresienstadt ghetto listings; in this regard the Roman numeral IV refers to Vienna. Many of the elderly Jews among these “old-age transports” (Alterstransporte) succumbed in Theresienstadt to starvation and disease during the summer months. Others were deported in October 1942 from Theresienstadt to Treblinka, where they were murdered.