Transport 39, Train Da 225 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Maly Trostenets, Camp, Belorussia (USSR) on 31/08/1942

Transport No. 39, labeled Da225, departed from Aspangbahnhof in Vienna on August 31st, 1942, at 7:10 pm and arrived on September 4th at Maly Trostenets. The transport consisted of 1000 Jews, 153 of them were older than 61 years. The average age of the deportees was 46. The train traveled along a route that took it through Vienna’s Nordbahnhof, Platerowo, Czeremcha, Wolkowysk, Baranovichi, Koydanovo, Minsk and Kolodishchi. A group of armed uniformed policemen (Schutzpolizei) under the command of an officer (Revierleutnant der Schutzpolizei) named Peter Johann guarded the deported Jews throughout the trainride. According to timetable number 62, which had been distributed on August 15th, 1942, by the Central Railroad Administration to the train stations at Wolkowysk, Baranovichi, and the freight train stations at Minsk and Kolodishchi, train Da 225 arrived at the main train station in Wolkowysk on Wednesday, September 2nd at 4:35 pm. The Jewish deportees were transferred from passenger cars to freight cars, a passenger car for the guards was attached and the train’s engine was replaced. The train left the station at 9:25 pm and arrived on Thursday, September 3rd at 4:01 am at the main train station in Baranovichi. In Baranovichi, the engine was replaced again and at 7:30 am the train continued on its way, arriving in Koydanovo at 11:42 am....