Transport from Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Stuttgart), Wuerttemberg, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 17/06/1943

On May 21, 1943, the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office) sent out a circular to all Gestapo headquarters in the Reich. It stated that the deportations of eligible Jews to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt should be concluded by June 30. Exemptions from deportation were further reduced. The new guidelines explicitly authorized the Gestapo to include sick and infirm Jews in the transports. In light of the small number of remaining Jews, members of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany and of the local Jewish administration were to be included as well. The guidelines stated that for deportations of less than 400 people, special cars, attached to regular trains were to be used.
Very little information is available regarding this transport of 13 Jews that left Stuttgart on June 17, 1943. Alfred Marx, the Wurttemberg representative of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, noted that these deportees were Jewish spouses from former mixed marriages.
This transport – together with another consisting of nine Jews who left for Theresienstadt on the same day - marked the end of the Jewish communities in Württemberg and Hohenzollern as they were officially dissolved and their offices seized by the military authorities. However, there was still a Jewish trustee whose task was to serve the few Jews who were still living in existing mixed marriages....