Transport 34 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 28/07/1942

Transport No. 34 departed at 7 pm from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) on July 28, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt on July 29. The transport consisted of 999 Jews, the majority of whom were elderly. 959 deportees were older than 61, the average age of the deportees was 73 years. This was the sixth transport from Vienna to Theresienstadt in the summer of 1942. Six armed guards from the Uniformed Police (Schutzpolizei) under the command of Lieutenant Johann Pflamitzer guarde the deportees throughout the journey. The guards reported at 11 am at the station where the Jewish deportees were concentrated. 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/6 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.