Transport 35, Train Da 501 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 13/08/1942

Transport No. 35 departed at 7:08 pm from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) on August 13, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt (Terezín) at 7:19 am on August 14. The majority of the 1,001 Jews on this transport were elderly. 882 deportees were older than 61, the average age of the deportees was 70 years. Six uniformed policeman (Schutzpolizei) under the command of Lieutenant Alois Wolf were assigned to watch over the Jewish deportees throughout the journey. The guards had all reported by noon 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/7 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.