![In a scene from a Nazi propaganda film, Dr. Paul Eppstein (right), Council of Elders chairman, addresses Dutch Jews. [LCID: 86504]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/6f33b2ac-3421-4985-b431-0cc6a23fec2a.jpeg)
On January 20, 1944, a Czech film crew took footage of a transport of Jews arriving in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto. The transport, which included 870 Jews, had left the Westerbork transit camp two days earlier. The train arrived 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 Paul Eppstein (right), the chairman of the Council of Elders, giving a welcome speech. The man on the left is Dr. Alfred Wachtel, the leader of the arriving transport.
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