Despite the German withdrawal on the Eastern front and the heavy aerial bombardment of German cities, the deportation of Jews from German cities did not stop. On December 18, 1943, a circular signed by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller was sent out to all Sipo (Security Police) local headquarters. It permitted the deportation of Jews, whose marriage to non-Jews had terminated due to divorce or death of the non-Jewish spouse
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Transport No. 47e left Vienna’s Nordbahnhof (Northern Railway Station) on February 24, 1944 and arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau on February 25. It consisted of 41 Jews. According to available archival records, the average age of 18 deportees was 43; three of them were over 61. This was the fifth transport from Vienna to the East (Auschwitz) during the years 1943 and 1944 (Osttransporte).

Historian Danuta Czech notes in the Auschwitz Chronicle the arrival of an RSHA-transport from Vienna on February 25. Following a selection carried out by the SS men, four Jews were sent to the camp. Subsequently they were given the Nos. 174437- 174440. The remaining 37 Jews were immediately sent to the gas chambers and murdered.
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