Transport 46a from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 05/01/1943

Transport No. 46a left Vienna’s Nordbahnhof at 6 pm on January 5, 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt on January 6. The transport consisted of 101 Jews. 33 deportees were older than 61, the average age of the deportees was 49 years. Five armed policemen from the Schutzpolizei, under the command of Police Officer Maximilian Beutel were assigned to guard the deported Jews throughout the journey. In accordance with telephoned orders from SS-Untersturmfuehrer Ernst Girzick, of the Jewish Emigration Office, the guards reported at the station’s mail platform, to which the Jews were brought for deportation. Due to the small number of deportees, the security police (Sipo) in Vienna ordered a single train car from the German rail company, which was attached to passenger train no. 723 that left daily at 6 pm from the northern train station in Vienna, via Lundenburg (Breclav), to Brno (Brünn). In Brno, the car was disengaged and attached to a train run by the company that operated in the Protectorate (Protektoratsbahnen) and traveled to Prague (Praha) and from there to the station at Bohusovice. At the station in Bohusovice, the Jews were taken off the train and forced to walk about three kilometers to Theresienstadt, where the transport was noted in the ghetto records as IV/14a; the Roman numeral IV representing Vienna.