# Auschwitz transport id 544 — Łódź ghetto, arrived 22 Aug 1944 (context for Abram's "Eingewiesen am 22.8.44 Au")

- **Source:** Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum victims database, transports; https://victims.auschwitz.org/en/transports (via auschwitz_get_transport 544, 2026-10-27).
- **Fields:** arrival 22-08-1944; "Transport RSHA of Jews from occupied Poland (Getto in Lodz)"; registered 66 = 64 men (camp numbers B-7697 – B-7760) + 2 women (87095 – 87096); remark: "Young and healthy were sent, without registration, to a transit camp in Birkenau. Remaining people were killed in gas chambers."
- Other Łódź ghetto transports Aug-Sep 1944 in the database: 15.8 (id 540, 244 men registered), 16.8 (541, 670), 21.8 (543, 131), **22.8 (544, 64)**, 24.8 (545, 239), 30.8 (546, 75; B-8129–B-8203), 2.9 (547, 893). No Łódź transport is listed for 10.8.1944 (Sala's card says "Eingewiesen 10.8.44 Auschwitz").
- **Reading (grade: ככל הנראה):** Abram's Mauthausen card date 22.8.44 = arrival of transport 544. The transport registered only 64 men, so a 16-year-old was most probably among the "young and healthy sent without registration to the Birkenau transit camp" — which fits the zero hits for Kutner Abram in the Auschwitz name database (N-2) while the Massuah eulogy says the camp number was on his arm. Registration number therefore unknown; the Mauthausen card (133332) is the only number.
- **Auschwitz name database sweep (2026-10-27):** surname Kutner/Kotner/Kuttner/Cutner/Kutnier/Kutnar/Bandus/Bandusz/Mlotek + given-name combos Abram, Israel, Izrael, Sala, Cywia, Fajga: 20 persons, none of the family (Kutner Izrael b.12.12.1916 #28770 and Kutner Jakub b.1906 Łódź #20380 are other men; Mlotek hits are other people).