Transport 38, Train Da 507 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 27/08/1942

Transport No. 38 departed from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) on August 27, 1942 at 7:08 pm and arrived in Theresienstadt on August 28 at 7:19 am. The majority of the 1,000 Jewish deportees on this transport that was given the definition “Alterstransport”, were elderly. 881 deportees were older than 61, the average age was 72 years. It was the ninth transport from Vienna to Theresienstadt in the summer of 1942 and included Rosa Graf, a sister of the eminent psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Rosa Graf had been born in 1860 and her number on the transport was IV/9-990. On September 29, 1942, just one month later, she was transferred from Theresienstadt to the Treblinka extermination camp. Six armed uniformed police (Schutzpolizei) guards under the command of Lieutenant Alois Wolf reported at noon at the station where the Jewish deportees were being held and watched over them 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/9 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 of 1942. Others were deported in October 1942 from Theresienstadt to Treblinka, where they were murdered.