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commencement of transferring title deeds and often led to disputes as to which
authority would appropriate the real estate. City, provincial and Reich
governmental bodies competed for booty.
By the time the deportation of the aged and war veterans to Theresienstadt
commenced in November 1942, deportation had become a component of daily
life. In spite of growing suspicions and uncertainty, Jews retained hope. However,
a certain fatalistic inevitability evolved, as expressed in the following recollection:
Terezin was a completely separate situation. Terezin – they only sent people
over sixty-five and some survived – not only over sixty-five, but also people
who had been injured in the First World War. Everybody else went east.
Terezin was the exception. In this sort of situation people always hope. I think
they also understood that they weren’t going to come back. My parents did
discuss this. 230
Three mass deportations occurred from Magdeburg to Theresienstadt in 1942. The
first deportation of seventy-three Jews left on 18 November 1942. 231 It was
followed by a second deportation of seventy-six Jews on 25 November 1942 232
and a third deportation of seventy Jews on 2 December 1942. 233 The same
procedure of appropriating vacated ‘Judenhäuser’ ensued. With the deportation of
Frieda Katzmann and the remaining inhabitants of her property at Westendstraße
9, the process began. The same applied to Pauline Lippmann when she and the
remaining residents of her property at Schöninger Straße 27a were deported, 234 as
230 M. F., op. cit., 27 June 1999.
231 List of deported Jews from Magdeburg to Theresienstadt, Transport XX/1, 18
November 1942, Collection 0.64, File 271, YVA, op. cit., pp. 45–48. All cited
statistics for all four deportations to Theresienstadt are also to be found in Institut
Theresienstädter Initiative, ed., op. cit., pp. 762–766.
232 List of deported Jews from Magdeburg to Theresienstadt, Transport XX/2, 25
November 1942, ibid., pp. 50–53.
233 List of deported Jews from Magdeburg to Theresienstadt, Transport XX/3, 2
December 1942, ibid., pp. 55–58.
234 Betrifft: Judengrundstücke in Magdeburg, Westendstraße Nr. 9 und Schöninger
Straße Nr. 27a, 4. Februar – 25. November 1943, Bestand Rep. C 20 I. I b, Signatur
Nr. 3296, Band 2, LHASA MD, op .cit., pp. 166–189.