ABSTRACT
The chapter explores the Danes’ last months of ghetto life, a period that included hard physical labour for most adults as well as the so-called cigarette affair, a smuggler case involving a young man of the Danish group. In February 1945, the Danes were used as “bait” to make others volunteer for a convoy to Switzerland, but in the end, no Danes were allowed to leave. It is not clear from the sources who was behind this, but the entire group had to remain in the ghetto, where they were picked up in mid-April by the so-called White Buses. The circumstances of their release and what went on in the ghetto until departure is examined; so are the weddings that took place shortly before release and gender differences in this regard. The Danish prisoners left Theresienstadt with a lot of luggage, including important documentation of their 18 months in the ghetto.
