Transport from Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 19/01/1944

The transport left Ried im Innkreis, located in the vicinity of Linz, on January 19, 1944. It arrived in Theresienstadt on January 20. There was only one deportee: Dr. Julius Donath. Donath was a prominent dentist and a decorated war veteran, who had converted to Christianity. Following the aryanization process carried out in 1938, Dr. Donath’s clinic was seized and transferred to an "Aryan" dentist named Dr. Oswald. At the beginning of 1944, Dr. Oswald, apparently feared his professional future due to the course of the war and demanded the deportation of Dr. Donath. In spite of the fact that both of Donath’s sons had served in the Wehrmacht and received decorations, he was sent to Theresienstadt. Donath was first sent to Vienna. There, he was put on passenger train no. 723, which left daily at 6 PM from the Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) and travelled via Breclav (Lundenburg) to Brno (Brünn). In Brno he was transferred to a train run by the "Protektoratsbahnen" (the company that operated trains in the so called "Protektorat") destined for Prague (Praha). From there, the journey continued to Theresienstadt....