Jewish Graves "The Lost Train" ("Der Verlorene Zug")

In April 1945, 2500 prisoners from Bergen Belsen were put on 3 train transport to Theresienstadt.

Theresienstadt was no longer reachable especially for the last train, which became called "The lost train" ("Der verlorene Zug") or "The train of the lost" ("Der Zug des Verlorenen") and was was liberated by Russian troops after a long journey through Germany at Tröbitz, on 23rd April 1945.

Of the prisoners, 198 were already dead and in the following weeks another 320 people died because of exhaustion and disease.

At the Tröbitz Jewish Cemetery there are still 82 graves of victims and also a wall with the names of all victims. This Jewish cemetery is unique in many ways starting with that it is the only Jewish cemetery in a village that never had Jews.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Steven Hess
• Photos: Koos Winkelman
• PRENGER, K., Meer dan alleen Auschwitz, Just Publishers, 2021.