- It is not known how many of the 37 deportees to #Ravensbrück survived. - Out of the 625 Jews who arrived at #Auschwitz from Mechelen 206 men and 146 women were admitted into the camp. The other 273 people were immediately murdered. One hundred and forty one people survived this transport. - When the transport reached #Theresienstadt on April 7, it was entered into the ghetto records as XXIV/5, the Roman numerals denoting the Netherlands. 26 Jews from this transport survived. From all other transports that day it is unknown how many people managed to survive.... Photo: Block 61 Buchenwald concentration camp.
April 5, 1944: 5 transports departed #Westerbork in one deportation train. To #Auschwitz, #BergenBelsen, #Theresienstadt, #Ravensbrück and #Buchenwald.
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