Small Transports to Concentration Camps,
1943-1945
1943-1945
Of the more than 200,000 Austrians who according to the racist "Nuremberg laws" were considered to be Jews, only about 8,000 remained in Vienna after the great wave of deportations in October 1942. These were either people charged with the administrative dissolution of "Israelitische Kultusgemeinde" and its continuation from November 1942 as "Ältestenrat der Juden in Wien", those who lived in a "privilegierte Mischehe" (head of family an "Aryan", children "Mischlinge" of the first degree), or "nicht-privilegierte Mischehe" (wife an "Aryan", no children), or people defined as "Geltungsjuden" (Jews by definition).
All Jews were forced to work, and their food rations reduced to a minimum. They lived in constant fear of deportation. This could occur immediately at the death of an "Aryan" spouse or parent, at the slightest real or perceived offence against one of the numerous restrictive anti-Jewish regulations, or upon the loss of a job. In order to escape the threat of deportation many tried to survive as "U-Boote".
Several small transports were routed directly from Vienna to Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt, between March 1943 and February 1945. Jews that carried foreign citizenship were deported to Buchenwald and later to Bergen-Belsen if, despite an order to emigrate, they did not do so or were not able to do so.
One page from the deportation list of the transport from Vienna to Auschwitz on March 30,
1943.
Daily Report Nr. 18 of the Gestapo-Staatspolizeileitstelle Wien (August 20-23, 1943).
Max Pordes (born on February 16, 1887) was not deported to Auschwitz, but to Theresienstadt on November 11, 1943. He died there on November 23, 1943.
Daily Report Nr. 18 of the Gestapo-Staatspolizeileitstelle Wien (August 20-23, 1943).
Max Pordes (born on February 16, 1887) was not deported to Auschwitz, but to Theresienstadt on November 11, 1943. He died there on November 23, 1943.
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