The transport orders were handed down from the Office for Settlement of the Jewish Question (Zentralamt zur Regelung der Judenfrage) in Prague to the camp commander Karl Rahm. According to Vilem Cantor, who was in charge of transport registry in Theresienstadt, the commander passed these orders to the Jewish Council which was forced to comply. They included the date of the transport and the number of people to be transferred, as well as any special criteria: in this case these included the parents, spouses and underage children of the people previously sent to Auschwitz. The expulsion of veterans of WW1 and...