Transport from Amstetten, Lower Austria, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 14/04/1945

The transport left Amtstetten on April 14 1945, and arrived in Theresienstadt on April 15. It consisted of 77 Jewish men and women. They were Hungarian Jews form Budapest who had participated in the death march of November 1944. On its arrival in Theresienstadt, the transport was listed in the Ghetto records as IV/16a. The Roman numeral IV represented Vienna. Dr. Weisz, a doctor in Theresienatdt Ghetto, wrote a medical report about the deportees: Today at 11:45 a transport from Amtstetten arrived in Theresinstad. The people were in a poor state of health due to the rough journey and were placed in quarantine because they were infected with lice. Excerpts from Isacck Wolster memoirs...