Transport 33 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 22/07/1942

Transport No. 33 departed from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) on July 22, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt on July 23. The transport consisted of 1,000, mostly elderly Jews. 884 deportees were older than 61, the average age of the deportees was 70 years. This was the fifth transport from Vienna to Theresienstadt in the summer of 1942. Six uniformed policeman were assigned to guard the Jewish deportees throughout the journey, under the command of an un-named officer with the rank of a lieutenant. 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/5 in the Theresienstadt ghetto listings; in this regard the Roman numeral IV refers to Vienna. Many of the elderly Jews aboard these transports 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.