Transport 10 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Lodz, Ghetto, Poland on 02/11/1941

Transport number 10 left the Aspangbahnhof in Vienna (Wien) at 4:15 pm (instead of the scheduled 11 am) on November 2nd, 1941, destined for Radegast train station in Lodz. This was the fifth and last of the transports of Jewish deportees from Vienna to Lodz and was part of an extensive deportation campaign forced on the Jewish inhabitants of cities in Germany, the Protectorate and Austria, which began in the fall of 1941. According to available records, the transport consisted of 1,000 people (362 of them over 61 years of age), including 52 who were classified as “not members of the Jewish faith.” These were gentile wives or husbands and children of “mixed marriages”. The average age of the deportees was 52. Criminal commissar Fuchs reported to the local commander of the security police (Inspektor der Sipo und des SD) in Posen that the transport included 219 members of families, 77 unmarried men and 424 unmarried women. 650 of the deportees were declared “fit for work”, 304 were noted as sick or elderly. The deportees traveled in uncomfortable carriages on a regular passenger train. A police officer and 15 armed uniformed policemen were guarding the deportees throughout the trainride. 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 were then led to the ghetto....