Transport Bi from Moravska Ostrava, Moravska Ostrava, Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 21/09/1942

Transport Bi left Ostrava for the Theresienstadt Ghetto on September 21, 1942 at 23:00. It consisted of 860 Jews. Unlike, transport Bh that left Ostrava two days earlier, transport Bi consisted mainly of residents from Ostrava itself. The deportees were assembled on September 19 at a school building on Kopernikusgasse in Oderfurt (today, Privoz), a neighborhood located near the local train station. 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....