In the footsteps of the Jewish inhabitants of Ústí nad Labem

Destination unknown

The entire Robert family was deported from Prague in May 1942 on the Au-1 transport. After only two days spent in the so-called "šlojska" of the Terezín ghetto, they continued on the Ay transport. Its destination in occupied Poland remains unknown to this day. Of the thousand deportees, none survived.

Source of portrait photographs: National archive, Police directorate Praha II, 1931 – 1940, sign. R 1757/3, kart. 9571, R 1583/32, kart. 10136, R 1757/2, kart. 9571, R 1583/29, kart. 10136, digitized by the Terezín Initiative Institute as part of the Terezín Album project.

It is assumed that the transport was murdered in the same or similar way as the Terezín transports Ax and Az, both of which were directed to the main railway station in Lublin, where the SS selected several people for forced labor at the Majdanek death camp. The other deportees probably passed through smaller ghettos and camps in the Lublin district, where they were gradually unloaded, or were sent directly to the Sobibór death camp.


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