Transport 46i from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 24/06/1943

Transport No. 46i left Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) on June 24, 1943, and arrived in Theresienstadt on June 26. It consisted of 137 Jews, who had been arrested by the Gestapo between June 23 and 24. The average age of the deportees was 44. 27 of them were older than 61. Four armed policemen from the Schutzpolizei guarded the deportees throughout the journey. Through existing archival records the guards have been identified as Rudolf Gettinger, Friedrich Mach, Leopold Trauner and Josef Treipel. They were ordered to report at ramp No.13 at the train station at 6:30 PM and to await the deportees. Upon arrival, the transport was listed in the ghetto records as IV/14i. The Roman numeral IV represented Vienna as city of origin. At the end of World War II, around 5,000 Jews remained in Vienna.