Transport, Train Da 33 from Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Wuerttemberg, Germany to Riga, Rigas, Vidzeme, Latvia on 01/12/1941

Following an order issued by the Gestapo dated November 18, 1941, the District Administration Offices (Landratsämter) and State Police offices in the provinces of Wurttemberg and Hohenzollern, organized a transport of 1.000 people. The RSHA ordered Friedrich Mußgay, head of Gestapo Stuttgart, to plan the deportation. He passed the orders on to the local mayors and district administrators. Jews married to non-Jews in “mixed” marriages, persons over the age of 65 and Jews with foreign citizenship were currently exempt, although they too were later deported to Theresienstadt. Jews were deported from more than 60 towns, villages and hamlets. Most of the deportees were from Stuttgart (338), Haigerloch (120), Heilbronn and Rexingen (53 each), Göppingen (46), Buchau (28), Ulm (25), Laupheim (23), Baisingen (21) and Buttenhausen (20). The average age of the deportees was 43....