První transporty evropských Židů v dějinách holocaustu
The First Transports of European Jews in the History of the Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: On 18 October 2014, it was 75 years from the departure of the first transport of European Jews in the history of the Holocaust, a transport heading from Ostrava to Nisko in the eastern part of the General Government where, according to the Nazi plans, an extensive “reservation” was to be established for the Jews displaced from the conquered territories and from Germany. As part of the so-called Nisko Mission, seven transports were organised from Ostrava, Katowice and Vienna in the latter half of October 1939, taking more than five thousand Jews. The journey was not even stopped by the fact that at the time the first transport was about to depart, the whole plan to establish a Jewish reservation between the Wisla and the Bug was shelved by the Nazi leaders. The fates of thousands of deported Jews varied; death or suffering in Nazi and Soviet prisons and camps awaited most of them.

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