Transport 7, Train Da 5 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Lodz, Ghetto, Poland on 19/10/1941

Transport number 7 departed from Aspang train station in Vienna (Wien) on October 19th, 1941 in train number Da 5, arriving at the Radegast station in Lodz on October 20th at 3:10 PM (instead of at 11 AM, as originally planned). The Jews were deported in third class passenger compartments. This transport was the second of five to leave Vienna for Lodz and it was carried out in the context of a broad deportation of Jews from German cities and the protectorate in Austria, which commenced in the fall of 1941. Fifteen armed uniformed policemen under the command of police officer Johann Zahnt were guarding the deportees during the train ride. This transport consisted of 1,000 people (458 of them older than 61 years), including 99 classified as "not counted among the Jewish faith", in other words, the spouses and children of mixed marriages. The average age of the deportees was 56. Criminal commissar Fuchs reported to the local commander of the security police (Inspektor der Sipo und des SD) in Posen that the transport consisted of 207 families, 136 bachelors and 414 single women. The German police officer classified 750 of them as "fit for work". 249 of the deportees were elderly or sick and 731 were unskilled. Immediately after the transport arrived in Lodz, the policemen confiscated all money and documents from the Jewish deportees and handed both over to the Gestapo. The Jews from Vienna were then led to the local ghetto....