Transport No. 46h left Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station on May 25, 1943, and arrived at Theresienstadt on May 27. It consisted of 200 Jews. The average age of the deportees was 67. 129 of them were over 61. 2/3 of them had been inhabitants of the Jewish old age home in Wien 9, Seegasse 9. This institution was officially closed and seized by German authorities two days after the deportation.
On its arrival in Theresienstadt, the transport was listed in the ghetto register as IV/14h. The Roman number IV represented Vienna as city of origin.
At the end of World War II, around 5,000 Jews remained in Vienna.
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