Transport from Wuerzburg, Würzburg (Mainfranken), Bavaria, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 17/06/1943

Most of the Jews from Franconia (northern Bavaria, at that time Main Franconia) had already been deported in late 1941 and 1942 to Riga, Izbica, Krasnystaw, and Theresienstadt, so the few transports that left in 1943 and 1944 carried only a small number of deportees. In 1943, the Gestapo Nuremberg–Fuerth and its regional branch in Wuerzburg arranged one relatively “small” transport from Nuremberg to Auschwitz, which departed from Wuerzburg and Nuremberg–Fuerth on June 17. Apart from the Theresienstadt transports, this was the fourth and last train that left the district destined for ghettos and extermination camps in the East, and it carried the last of the Jews from Wuerzburg and Nuremberg–Fuerth. This transport to Auschwitz was organized and partly carried out together with another one to Theresienstadt that departed on the same day, both supervised by Hans Macht from the Nuremberg Gestapo office, who sent the plans for the deportation to the Wuerzburg branch. Bernhard Kolb, executive director of the Nuremburg Jewish community, the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung) had been dissolved, learned between June 12 and 16 that another transport was scheduled to leave in the coming days. According to the RSHA guidelines handed out to the deportees, they had to hand over 60 RM for their transport costs on June 16. They were allowed to take 50 kg of luggage with working clothes and food for five days — both regulations camouflaged the transport’s deadly end as a work detail. They were assigned transport numbers and these were to be attached to their clothing and suitcases to replace their civil identities....