Transport 37, Train Da 504 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 20/08/1942

Transport No. 37 departed from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) with train Da 504 on August 20, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt at 7:19 am on August 21. The majority of the 1,000 Jews on this transport, which was referred to as an Alterstransport, were elderly. 806 deportees were older than 61, the average age of the deportees was 69 years. Six armed guards from the uniformed police (Schutzpolizei), under the command of Lieutenant Robert Rill reported at 11:30 am at the rail station where the Jewish deportees were being held and kept them under guard throughout the journey. 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/8 in the Theresienstadt ghetto listings; in this regard the Roman numeral IV refers to Vienna....