Theresienstadt, a forced labor camp of the SS , served as a transit station for the deportation of prisoners to the extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Initially established in the fall of 1941 as a collection point for Bohemian and Moravian Jews, it was declared a “Altersghetto” [“ghetto for the elderly”] for Jews from the “Old Reich” in 1942. From November 24, 1941 to April 20, 1945, 141,000 people overall were deported to Theresienstadt.

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• Eva G. Reichmann (1897–1998) (Christine Schmidt)