Transport 48a from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 10/03/1944

Transport No. 48a left Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) on March 10, 1944 and arrived in Theresienstadt on March 11. It consisted of 84 Jews. The average age of the deportees was 51; 33 of them were over 61. Due to the relatively small number of deportees, the security police (Sipo) in Vienna ordered only a few rail cars, which were attached to passenger train No. 723, that left daily at 6 PM from Nordbahnhof and travelled via Breclav (Lundenburg) to Brno (Brünn). In Brno, the cars were disengaged and reattached to a train of the "Protektoratsbahnen" (the company that operated trains in the so called "Protektorat") destined for Prague (Praha). From there, the journey continued to Theresienstadt. On arrival, the transport was listed in the ghetto records as IV/15. The Roman numeral IV represented Vienna as city of origin....