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Theresienstadt Ghetto - food ration card of the Jewish woman Elisabeth Kellmann, a survivor of the ghetto - JUDISCHE SELBSTVERWALTUNG THERESIENSTADT BEZUGS-SCHEEIN - Food ration coupon No. 78,871 of the Jewish ghetto survivor Elisabeth Kellmann - Theresienstadt Ghetto (Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt Ghetto, March 8, 1945. The holder of the card was Kalmán Elisabeth, and some of the coupons were used by her in the ghetto. According to the information recorded on the card, which bears the number 645, Kellmann arrived at Theresienstadt on transport IV/16. Transport IV/16 is known to have departed from Vienna and arrived at Theresienstadt on March 8, 1945. This transport brought 101 deportees from the Austrian region, the vast majority of whom received card numbers ranging from 600 to 700, corresponding to the number 645 appearing on the card before us. The letters IV in Nazi documents denoted deportations from the Austrian region (Wien/Ostmark). These late transports of 1945 consisted primarily of Jews whose rights were protected, forced laborers sent to Austria from Romania or Hungary, or survivors of a succession of labor camps. The information on the card also corresponds with the information appearing in the Names Archive of the Yad Vashem Museum - Elisabeth Kellmann was born in 1906. During the war she was in Gmuend. She was deported on a transport from Strasshof, Lower Austria, to Theresienstadt on March 8, 1945. The record further states that her prisoner number on the transport was 645, corresponding to the number appearing on the document before us. According to the information received by Yad Vashem, Elisabeth survived the Holocaust. See record No. 4788935 ( here ), and see also the Terezín Memorial Book, Terezín Initiative, Volumes 1-2, Prague, 1995; Volume 3, Prague, 2000. 21x20 cm. Good condition.