The Lost Transport

Identifier
irn517997
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.50
Dates
1 Jan 1995 - 31 Dec 2002
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517997

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Arieh Koretz of The "Lost Transport" Victims Memorial Society donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Feb. 8, 2006.

Scope and Content

Consists of copies of articles and booklets regarding the "Lost Transport," which carried Jews from Bergen-Belsen in the direction of Theresienstadt from Apr. 10 to 23, 1945. The few survivors of this transport were discovered and liberated by the Red Army in the yard of a coal factory near Tröbitz, Germany, on Apr. 23, 1945. During the transport, which was infected with typhus, the dead were buried along the train tracks at each stop. The train was frequently the target of bombings; the train was stopped for two days near Schipkau, Germany, from Apr. 19 to 20 due to a bombed-out bridge. Includes a booklet containing a name list of "Lost Transport" victims.

Genre

  • Document
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