Transport Bm from Moravska Ostrava, Moravska Ostrava, Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 29/09/1942

Transport Bm left Ostrava for the Theresienstatd Ghetto on September 29, 1942 at 23:00. It consisted of 862 Jews, most of them were residents of Ostrava. The deportees were fist assembled in a School building on Kopernikusgasse in Oderfurt neighborhood. 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.