Bertha Alice Pincus

Häftlingsnummer auf dem Transport: 1532 „This transport departed from Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin on 14 July 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt in the early evening of the same day. The transport consisted of 100 Jews. Forty two were patients of the Jewish hospital located at Nos. 2-4 Iranische Strasse in the Wedding district in Berlin who were brought directly on trucks to the assembly camp or to the station. Seventy eight of the deportees were women and 22 were men. The average age of the deportees was 73.4. The youngest of them was a girl aged 12, and the oldest was 91 years old. Three of them were between the ages of 19 and 45, eight were between 46 and 60, seventy eight were aged between 61 and 85, and ten of the deportees were over 85 years old. … According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, there are no known survivors from this transport.“

Häftlingsnummer auf dem Transport: 196 „This transport, designated ‚Ep‘ was the sixth to leave Theresienstadt for Auschwitz in this final wave of 11 such transports. It departed from Theresienstadt on October 9, 1944, on the day of the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, and a day after the planned date of departure. It arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on October 12. On board were 1,600 men, women and children. On the day of the transport, an empty train arrived at Theresienstadt via the adjoining tracks built by Jewish prisoners in the summer of 1943. The inmates were loaded into the overcrowded railway cars. Historian Alfred Gottwaldt suggests that these latter transports from Thereseinstadt to Auschwitz were conducted using two trains of 25-30 freight cars each, which traveled back and forth between the camps. Trains from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz usually went north to Dresden, and then east to Breslau (Wroclaw) and Kattowitz (Katowice). Beginning in May 1944, transports of Jews would arrive directly at Birkenau (Auschwitz II). Upon their arrival, the inmates were ordered to leave their luggage behind and underwent selection by one of the camp physicians. Those deemed fit for labour – historian Danuta Czech estimates these were 181 women and an unknown number of men – were taken to the Birkenau transit camp, and were shortly thereafter transported to other labour camps; the rest were marched off to the gas chambers where they were murdered. Out of the 1,600 people on this transport, only 42 are known to have survived the war.“