Karl (Karel) Salomon
Vita
(RS) Heirat 22 Jan 1914 Dresden
wh. Turnov, CZ
(YV) Transport Cm from Mlada Boleslav, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 16/01/1943, Prisoner Number in Transport: 220
Transport Cm left Mlada Boleslav to the Theresienstadt Ghetto on 16 January 1943. It consisted of 491 Jews, residents from Mlada Boleslav and from the neighboring towns Jicin, Brandys nad Labem (Brandeis), Neratovice (Neratowitz), Celakovice (Tschelakowitz), Turnov and Zelezny Brod (Eisenbrod). The deportees had to report at the gymnasium of the Masaryk school in Mlada Boleslav, which served as a collection point.
Transport Cq, Train Da 101 from Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 20/01/1943, Prisoner Number in Transport: 1212
(Terezinska Pametni Kniha [Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch])
The transport, designated “Cq”, departed from Theresienstadt on January 20, 1943 and was the first of a series of five transports. On board were 2,000 men, women and children. It arrived in Auschwitz the next day on January 21. The transport was composed entirely of Jews who had been deported earlier from the Protectorate. Among them, 545 arrived in Theresienstadt on transports “Cl” and “Cm” that had arrived from Mlada Boleslav on January 13 and 16, 1943, and possibly remained in quarantine since their arrival at the ghetto; 482 arrived from Tabor on transports “Bz” and “Cb” on November 12 and 16, 1942; and 479 arrived from Klatovy on transports “Cd” and “Ce” on November 26 and 30, 1942.
On the day of the transport, the inmates were marched to the Bauschowitz (Bohusovice) train station, some 3km outside the ghetto, where they were loaded onto the railway cars that were waiting. Those unable to march were taken with the heavier luggage by truck or by man-drawn carts.
The train from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, which was designated “Da 101”, went north to Dresden, and then east to Breslau (Wroclaw) and Kattowitz (Katowice). Upon their arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the inmates were divided into two groups, men in one, and women with children in the other. Those deemed fit for labour were taken into the camp: the rest were marched off to the gas chambers in Birkenau where they were murdered. The empty train returned to Theresienstadt under the designation “Lp 102”.
According to historian H. G. Adler, only two people from this transport are known to have survived the war.
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(RS) Vater Bernhard Salomon 09.081851 Hilbringen, Merzig-Wadern – 04.10.1926 Saarwellingen
Mutter Friederika Salomon geb. Levy 10.03.1854 Illingen, Neunkirchen – 03.08.1916 Saarwellingen
Bruder Isidor Salomon 24.02.1880 Saarwellingen – 04.02.1918 Mesterowe
Bruder Julius Salomon 11.01.1883 Saarwellingen – 13.06.1951 Libertyville, IL
Bruder Max Salomon 26.09.1884 Saarwellingen – 12.08.1917 Bethel, Bielefeld, Westfalen
Schwester Nathalie Isaak geb. Salomon 26.08.1886 Saarwellingen – 15.05.1974 Chicago, IL
Bruder Friedrich (Fred Bernard) Salomon 24.09.1888 Saarwellingen – 14.04.1963 Palm Springs, CA
Bruder Siegfried Salomon 29.04.1890 Saarwellingen – 28.01.1967 Chicago, IL
Bruder Eugen Salomon 06.05.1894 Saarwellingen – 10.05.1923 Rehlingen, Saarlouis
Ehefrau Sitta Adrienne Salomon geb. Stein gesch. Eckstein 06.05.1886 Prag, Böhmen – 20.01.1943 KL Auschwitz; (ks)