Wave 33 – „3rd large Transport of the Elderly“ to Theresienstadt, 10/03/1942

Scope and content

Contains:

I) Correspondence of the Stapoleitstelle Berlin with the Chief Finance President Berlin concerning the confiscation of property of the deported Jews.
II) Transport list: So-called “3rd large Transport of the elderly” (I/71) (listed are 960 names) to Theresienstadt, 10/14/1942.

According to historical research, the actual departure date was not 14 October 1942, as noted on the list, but 3 October 1942.
See: Akim Jah: Die Deportationen der Juden aus Berlin – Die nationalsozialistische Vernichtungspolitik und das Sammellager Große Hamburger Straße, Berlin 2013, S. 638. https://www.statistik-des-holocaust.de/list_ger_ber_gat3.html

Similar to the 2nd large deportation to Theresienstadt on 09/14/1942, this deportation also consisted mainly of elderly people over 65 years of age from different parts of the city, who had not lived in homes, but in apartments. In addition, 24 persons from the Siechenheim in Auguststraße 14/15 and 13 residents of the Radinkendorf working home as well as – for the first time – 15 war veterans with distinction, were deported.