Transport 19, Train Da 201 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Blagovshchina (Maly Trostenets Area), forest, Murder Site, Belorussia (USSR) on 06/05/1942

Transport No. 19, labeled Da 201, departed from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna on May 6th, 1942 at 7 pm and arrived in Minsk on May 11th at 10:30 am. The transport consisted of 1,000 Jews, 430 of them were older than 61 years. The average age of the deportees was 55. Twelve armed uniformed policemen (Schutzpolizei), amongst them two sergeants named Frey and Kainer, guarded the deportees during the train ride. They were commanded by an officer, first Lieutenant Peter Johann. Alois Brunner from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration instructed the guards to report at the station at 11 am and to wait for the deportees to arrive from the assembly camp. Brunner himself supervised the boarding process.
The train passed through Vienna’s Nordbahnhof. It then followed a route that took it through Lundenburg (Breclav), Prerau (Prerov), Olmütz (Olomouc), Gross Wisternitz (Velka Bystrice), Jägerndorf (Krnov), Olbersdorf (Mesto Albrechtice), Bad Ziegenhals (Glucholazy), Neisse (Nysa), Lamsdorf (Lambinowice), Oppeln (Opole), Loben (Lubliniec), Rudniki, Radomsko, Gorzkowice, Piotrkow, Warsaw (Warszawa), Wesola, Mrozy, Siedlce, Broszkow, Nurzec, Czeremcha, Wolkowysk, Koydanovo (Dzerzhinsk) and Minsk.
The train arrived at the station in Wolkowysk in the southwest of Belorussia on May 8th at 11 pm. In an operation, which took about three hours, all the Jews were transferred from the passenger cars to freight cars. On May 9th at 2:45 am the train continued on its way through Baranovichi. At 2:30 pm it stopped at Koydanovo. Because of the weekend vacation, the Minsk SD (Sicherheitsdienst) ordered the train to remain, under guard, at the station until May 11th. At Koydanovo, eight deportees – three men and five women - were declared dead. They were buried near the station....