On January 20, 1944, a film crew took footage of a transport of Jews arriving in the Theresienstadt ghetto. The transport had left the Westerbork transit camp two days earlier. On board the train were 870 people, including Dutch Jews and Jewish refugees from Germany and beyond. The train arrived in the vicinity of Theresienstadt on January 19, but Nazi authorities held the train overnight at the nearby Bauschowitz train station. They wanted to film the arrival of the deportees at Theresienstadt the following morning. This is a still shot from the January 20 footage. It shows the Jewish deportees with their luggage crossing the railroad tracks at the ghetto.
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