Although Cologne had been heavily destroyed by British and American bombardments in the first half of 1943, the deportations of Jews still continued into the second half of the year. The Gauleiter (Party Leader) of Cologne, Josef Grohe, explicitly stated that all Jews without exception who were engaged in special forced labor assignments, would be deported. At the end of October 1943, 20 Jews from Cologne were transported to Theresienstadt.
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The tenth transport from Cologne left the Cologne-Deutz-Tief train station on October 28 1943 and arrived in Theresienstadt on October 30 1943. Upon arrival it was given the reference III/10 in the ghetto listings where the Roman numeral III refers to Cologne. The transport consisted of 20 Jews of whom 15 were women and 5 were men. The average age of the deportees was 55. The youngest deportee was a 9 year old boy, and the oldest was an 87 year old woman.

In a memo dated November 8, 1943 the Cologne Gestapo notified the city Employment Office of the deportation.
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