Transport 47d from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 01/12/1943

Transport No. 47d left from Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) on December 1, 1943, and arrived in Auschwitz Birkenau on December 2. It consisted of 24 Jews. This was the fourth transport from Vienna to Auschwitz in 1943. The exact number of deportees remains unknown. Historian Danuta Czech notes in the Auschwitz Chronicle that on December 2, approximately 100 Jews arrived in Auschwitz in an RSHA-transport from Vienna. It is possible that this was a group transport, consisting of Jews from several cities. Upon arrival, the SS men carried out a selection. 13 men and 11 women were sent to the camp. The men were given the Nos. 165331-165343. It is not known which numbers were given to the women. Approximately 70 deportees, who did not pass the selection, were immediately sent to the gas chambers and murdered. At the end of World War II, around 5,000 Jews remained in Vienna.