The Memorial to the Disappeared at Platform 5 commemorates not only the deportees from the first transport. It commemorates all the inhabitants of the city and its surroundings who were deported from Brno to their deaths because, in the light of the laws in force at the time, they were considered Jews, i.e. persons who had no rights or even the right to live.
Systematic deportations of persons identified as Jews from the territory of the Protectorate began in October 1941.
On 16 November 1941, the first such transport left Brno, bound for the ghetto in Minsk, Belarus. Of the thousands deported, 13 people survived to the end of the war.
From Brno 12 such transports were dispatched bearing the code names F, G, K, U, Ac, Ad, Ae, Af, Ah, Ai, Aaa and Dg, most of them were sent to the ghetto in Terezín and from there to the death camps.
A total of 10,080 people were deported, 841 of them lived to the end of the war.