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#OTD June 2, 1942, the first Berlin Jews were deported to theresienstadt
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On 2 June 1942, at 06.07 am a train carrying 50 elderly Jewish men and women left platform one. Their destination? Theresienstadt – in what was then Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
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On 2 June 1942, at 06.07 am a train carrying 50 elderly Jewish men and women left platform one. Their destination? Theresienstadt – in what was then Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
2/n From then until 27 March 1945 116 departures would carry over 9,600 elderly Jewish citizens of Berlin to Theresienstadt. Anhalter Bahnhof was one of three stations in Berlin (the others being Bahnhof Grunewald and Moabit Goods Depot) from which over 50,000 Jews were
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Anhalter was a regular station and the Jewish men and women boarded a regular, scheduled departure for Czechoslovakia. The only clues that they were not regular
Anhalter was a regular station and the Jewish men and women boarded a regular, scheduled departure for Czechoslovakia. The only clues that they were not regular
4/n passengers was the yellow stars they were forced to wear and the fact they were surrounded by guards. They were made to travel in two specially consigned third class carriages.
These 116 journeys became known as the ‘old peoples transports’.
These 116 journeys became known as the ‘old peoples transports’.
5/5 The Nazis described Theresienstadt as a ghetto for the aged. In fact it was a transit camp. For those who survived the journey, who did not die of exhaustion or disease were sent further east to the concentration camps, mainly Auschwitz.
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