Transport 46j from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 15/07/1943

Transport 46j left from Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) on July 15, 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt on July 16. It consisted of 14 Jews. The average age of the deportees was 43. Two of them were over 61 years old. An SS-Untersturmführer named Becher led the deportees to the train station. At the Station the Jews were put on a train together with one policeman, who was assigned to guard the deportees throughout the journey. Due to the small number of deportees, the security police (Sipo) in Vienna put the deportees on passenger train No. 723 that left daily at 6 PM from Nordbahnhof in Vienna, via Breclav (Lundenburg), to Brno (Brünn). In Brno, the car was disengaged and reattached to a train of the "Protektoratsbahnen" (the company operating trains in the so called "Protektorat") destined for Prague (Praha). From there, the journey continued to Theresienstadt. On its arrival the transport was listed in the ghetto records as IV/14k. The Roman numeral IV represented Vienna as city of origin....