Scope and content
Contains:
Directory (in duplicate) with names of Jews collected from various communities in Thuringia and Saxony in Weimar, from where they were deported on May 10, 1942 via Leipzig and Chemnitz to the ghetto Bełżyce in the Lublin district. The list refers to those affected by the first partial transport from Weimar and the surrounding area, which left the city for Leipzig on the morning of May 10, 1942.
Those affected by the first partial transport came from the following places, among others (the individual pages of the directory contain the respective place names):
Altenburg, Apolda, Arnstadt, Aschenhausen, Bad Liebenstein, Bad Salzungen, Bauerbach/Ritschenhausen, Berkach, Bleicherode, Eisenach, Eisenberg, Erfurt, Geisa/Rhön, Gera, Gotha, Greussen, Hildburghausen, Hüpstedt, Jlmenau, Jena, Kahla, Kaltennordheim, Kaltensundheim, Meiningen, Möhra, Mühlhausen, Nordhausen, Pössneck, Römhild, Rudolstadt, Ruhla, Saalfeld, Sondershausen, Sonneberg, Suhl, Schleusingen, Themar, Tiefenort, Walldorf, Weimar, Gehaus.
At a freight station outside Leipzig, 287 more people from Leipzig and surrounding areas had to board the train. In the evening the deportation train reached Chemnitz, where another 199 people from Chemnitz, Plauen, and Zwickau had to board. On May 12, 1942, the deportees arrived in the ghetto of Bełżyce.
