Transport from Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a. Main (Wiesbaden), Hesse-Nassau, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 19/04/1943

On the transport, which left Frankfurt on April 19, 1943, 17 Jews with foreign citizenship were deported to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland. According to the deportation list of the Gestapo, signed by Poche, eight Jews with Slovakian passports were transported, six with Romanian, one with a Dutch passport, as well as one 15 year old boy from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia together with his mother who was born in Budapest but whose citizenship remains unknown. Among the deportees were two families with children aged 9 and 13. All the deportees were under 60 years old, and more than half of them were women.
It is virtually certain, that those seventeen Jews had been living in Germany for several years, maybe even before WWII, up until their deportation. "Security Orders" ("Sicherheitsanordnungen"), issued by the Nazi-Foreign Exchange Board (Devisenstelle), with which the Jews were systematically expropriated, show that several of the deportees had been living in Frankfurt since 1940. One deported woman is known to have been born in Frankfurt.
Prior to deportation the Jews were held in the Gestapo prison at No. 18 Ostendstrasse, which had functioned as an assembly site for foreign Jews since March 15, 1943. In his report dated April 16, 1943, SS member and city clerk Ernst Holland, the Gestapo overseer of the welfare department and charitable institutions of the Jewish Community in Frankfurt, euphemistically described it, as a place "[...] for the absorption of Jewish families with foreign nationalities"....