The bronze horizontally oriented relief is composed of two panels. The first depicts eight figures, men, women and children, leaving and saying goodbye to the city. The figure of the boy in the middle of the group bears two symbols - the dehumanization of the Jews in the transport number and a prayer for the deceased Yizkor. The second panel depicts a mourning willow. The work is located in a brick wall that is part of the city's fortifications. A later installed text plaque is located on a concrete step with brick lining below the relief.

V TĚCHTO MÍSTECH
NASTUPOVALY TISÍCE VĚZŇŮ
TEREZÍNSKÉHO GHETTA
SVOU POSLEDNÍ CESTU

The work was initiated by the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters in 1968 to commemorate the memory of Prague's Jews and to mark the assembly place in Prague-Holešovice, as pointed out in the original dedication text: "From these places of the former Radiotrh, the Nazis dragged a total of 45 413 men, women and children to concentration and extermination camps between 1941 and 1945, 37 669 of whom did not return."
The sculptor Břetislav Benda (1897–1983) conceived the work as a panel triptych – a panel with an inscription and reliefs with figural and floral motifs. The installation of the sculpture, completed in 1970, was politically blocked for a long time, even after 1985, when the Prague Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia gave its approval for the unveiling.
On 28 June 1988, the Council of Jewish Religious Communities in the Czechoslovak Republic unveiled the reliefs (but not the plaque with the text) in Terezín by the railway sidetrack where the transports from the ghetto departed. The location was in line with the meaning of the work, since most transports from the Prague assembly area were heading to Terezín, and for most of the deportees the ghetto was only a temporary stay before further transports to the east. The unveiling took place as part of a peace event of the Jewish religious communities of Europe organized by the Council of Jewish Religious Communities. Subsequently, a new accompanying text plaque, which is not part of the original work, was made.
The site of the Prague-Holešovice assembly place had to wait for an installation of a relief until 1991 (See the database entry Memorial plaque to Jewish transports, Praha 7 – Holešovice.)