The Lost Train, Bergen-Belsen, Tröbitz, Theresienstadt

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Survivors 3 Died 4 Info on other trains 5 Sources

Introduction

From Wikipedia^[1] (section below to be edited & clarified): The prisoners from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were put on three trains to be transported to Theresienstadt.^[2] Only one train reached Theresienstadt, due to a railway bridge blowing up outside of Tröbitz by allied bombing preventing the third train from completing the trip.[1][8][9] The first was freed by American troops at Farsleben a few days after departing Bergen-Belsen while the second reached Theresienstadt, The third transport would be the one known as the Lost Train.[5][10][11] Once Theresienstadt was no longer reachable for the train, holding around 2,500 people, the guards fled the train outside of Tröbitz.

Survivors

Ida Kolnik (1915-2010)

Died

Yaakov Naphtali Abrahams (1897-1945) Max Friedman (1895-1945)

https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0170_lost_train.html

Info on other trains

Frank Towers (1917-2016) was the Army liaison officer who had supervised the transportation of the freed prisoners at Farlseben to places of safety, then later in life located and contacted even more liberators and liberated.^[3] See also- https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0175_Farsleben.html

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Train
2. ↑ https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/5380/Jewish-Graves-The-Lost-Train-Der-Verlorene-Zug.htm
3. ↑ https://magdeburgtrain.com/the-story/

• https://www.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/last-deportees/bergen-belsen-trobitz.html
  • includes stories and names of a few survivors