In 1944 the Gestapo launched six "small" transports from Munich,
consisting of 44 Jews altogether. Since the closure of the
Milbertshofen assembly camp in August 1942, the number of Jews
in Munich remained very low. In March 1943 the Berg am Laim camp
was also closed. On May 1, 1943 only 314 persons were counted as
Jews according to the Nuremberg laws. Among them 171 were “full
Jews”. The majority of people in the last eleven transports from
Munich to Theresienstadt were Jews from ‘mixed marriages’ who
were scheduled for deportation because their non-Jewish partner
had either died or divorced. In February 1943 the RSHA had sent
out new deportation guidelines to the local State Police
offices. From then on, working in forced labour did not protect
anyone from deportation. However, Jewish partners in existing
mixed marriages and “Geltungsjuden” (people of mixed ancestry)
were still exempt. In May 1943 the guidelines for deportation
intensified as Heinrich Himmler ordered that all Jews defined as
such according