Transport 46c from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 11/01/1943

Transport number 46c departed from Vienna’s Nordbahnhof at 6 pm on January 11, 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt on January 12. The transport consisted of 100 Jews, many of them elderly and sick. 28 deportees were older than 61, the average age of the deportees was 48 years. A detail consisting of five policemen under the command of Meister der Schutzpolizei Richard Plepla was allocated to guard the train for the duration of its journey. The police officer was ordered to contact Ernst Girzick of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle fuer juedische Auswanderung) until 2:30 pm the latest to receive from him directions relating to his mission. The guard detail was ordered to report at Nordbahnhof postal freight platform (Postrampe) in order to receive the transport and the documents relevant to it from an SS Fuehrer, who was waiting at the site with the deportees. Due to the small number of deportees in this transport, a rail car ordered by the Vienna Security Police (Sipo) from the Reichsbahn Company was attached to the number 723 train scheduled to leave Nordbahnhof at 6 pm for Lundenburg (Breclav) and Brno (Brünn). In Brno the train car was transferred to a Protektoratsbahnen train on its way to Prague and Theresienstadt. On its arrival in Theresienstadt, the transport was registered in the ghetto register as IV/14c. The Roman number IV represented the city of Vienna.