Transport 48b from Wien, Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 28/04/1944

Transport No. 48b left Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) on April 28, 1944, and arrived in Theresienstadt on April 29. It consisted of 79 Jews. The average age of the deportees was 60. 48 of them were older than 61. Among the deportees was Baroness Emma Salvoti, a Roman Catholic by denomination and a grandniece of the poet Heinrich Heine. She was the daughter of Baron Heine-Geldern and the widow of Baron Leo Salvoti. Due to the small number of deportees, the security police (Sipo) in Vienna (Wien) ordered just a few train cars, which were attached to passenger train no. 723 that left daily at 6 PM from the northern train station and traveled via Breclav (Lundenburg) to Brno (Brünn). In Brno, the cars were disengaged and reattached to a train of the "Protektoratsbahnen" (the company that was operating trains in the so called "Protektorat") destined for Prague (Praha). From there, the journey continued to Theresienstadt....