Transport 32, Train Da 69 from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 17/07/1942

Transport number 32 left Vienna’s Aspangbahnhof (train station) on July 17, 1942 at 17:30 in a train marked Da 69. It arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on July 18. The transport consisted of 1,000 Jewish deportees with an average age of 48; among them 178 were aged 61 or above. An SS officer led the deportees from the assembly point to the railway station, where they were loaded onto the deportation train. Fifteen armed policemen under the command of Revierleutnant der Schutzpolizei Johann Bernhard guarded the train during the course of its journey. The guards had been ordered to report at the railway station between 11:00 and 11:30 on July 17, 1942. No documentation has been found relating to this transport. In Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945, historian Danuta Czech mentions the arrival of a transport of Jewish women on July 18. Following the selection process, 212 women were sent to the labor camp. They were identified as serial numbers 9338- 9549. The deportation train returned on July 19 to Aachen, Germany marked Da 1069. During the summer of 1942 there were no more additional transports of Jews from the Reich at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Although Himmler had given the order for Jews from Western European countries to be sent to Birkenau, transports from the Reich were sent to Treblinka and Maly Trostenets in Belarus. Transport from the Reich to Auschwitz Birkenau resumed at the end of October 1942.