Transport 43, Train Da 522 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 01/10/1942

Transport No. 43 left Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) on train Da 522 on October 1, 1942, at 8:20 pm and arrived in Theresienstadt on October 2. The train carried 1,299 people. It was the twelfth of thirteen transports from Vienna to include a large percentage of elderly people and was defined “Alterstransport”. 299 of the deportees were older than 61, the average age of the deportees was 47 years. Six armed policemen (Schutzpolizei), under the command of Lieutenant Robert Rill reported at 11:30 am at the station to which the Jewish deportees had been led and guarded them throughout the journey. The train followed a route that took it through Vienna’s Nordbahnhof, Floridsdorf, Jedlersdorf, Stockerau, Absdorf-Hippersdorf, Gmuend, Tabor, Prague (Praha) and Bohusovice. At Bohusovice the Jews were removed from the train and forced to walk three kilometers to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where the transport was noted in the ghetto records as IV/12; the Roman numeral IV representing Vienna. The following is an excerpt from the testimony of Reuven Singer:...