Transport 46k from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 02/09/1943

Transport No. 46k left Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Rail Station) on September 2, 1943, and arrived in Theresienstadt on September 3. It consisted of 20 Jews. The average age of the deportees was 45. One of them was 71 years old. Among the group were several deportees linked to the Wehrmacht and to the Austrian military. One of them was Rudolf Stiassnie, who lost both sons from his first marriage in combat in France and the USSR. Rosa Bololanik’s son, a soldier in the Wehrmacht, was killed on September 18, 1939. Johann Georg Franz Hugo Friedländer, who had held the rank Feldmarschalleutnant (the equivalent of a major general) in the Austrian military, arrived in Theresienstadt with his wife. Following his wife’s death, he was subsequently deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and shot by a guard during the Death March in 1945. On its arrival in Theresienstadt, the transport was listed in the ghetto records as IV/14l. The Roman numeral IV represented Vienna as city of origin....