Transport Bh from Moravska Ostrava, Moravska Ostrava, Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 17/09/1942

Transport Bh left Ostrava for the Theresienstadt Ghetto in the evening hours of September 17, 1942. It consisted of 860 Jews. It was the first of four big transports from Ostrava to Theresienstadt. Most of the deportees were either residents of Ostrava or of neighboring towns and villages. Among theses were Velke Karlovice, Vsetin, Stare Hamry (Althammer), Frydek-Mistek and Valasske Mezirici (Meseritsch). Prior to the train’s departure, several staff members of the Prague Jewish community Transports Department arrived in Ostrava to carry out administrative measures according to the orders they received from the Central Office for Jewish Immigration. They prepared a list of deportees, registered Jewish property, issued notices regarding the date of deportation, and assisted in packing and carrying luggage. The Jews were transferred from the school to the train station and put on a train. After it arrived in Bohusovice, the deportees had to disembark and were forced to march the remaining 3 km to Theresienstadt.