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Date: 9 October 1939
Departure: Oslebshausen
Arrival: Sachsenhausen
Number of deportees: 33 persons mentioned in the source
Context: After the outbreak of war, a wave of arrests swept through Bremen. Social Democrats, Communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and others named on Gestapo lists were detained and brought to Oslebshausen before the first transport left for Sachsenhausen.
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