Transport 16 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Riga, Ghetto, Latvia on 06/02/1942

Transport No. 16 left Vienna (Wien) at 5:40 pm on February 6, 1942 from Aspangbahnhof and arrived in Riga on February 10. This transport consisted of 1,000 Jews. The average age of the deportees was 54, 427 of the deportees were older than 61 years. After a few days, the Jews were brought from the school compound to the station. Armed police guarded the train during its entire journey. According to testimonies, Alois Brunner, head of the Central Office, was the commanding officer on the train. On arrival at the Skirotava station in Riga, around 700 deportees were transferred to waiting buses, including the elderly and the sick and children who were not capable of making the long distance to the ghetto on foot in the bitter cold. But these vehicles were actually gas trucks and the Jews were summarily murdered in them. Around 300 of the deportees from this transport actually reached the ghetto. By the end of the war, only 36 had survived....