Berlin Deportations1941–1945

Credits

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In Berlin

  1. Gleis 17: the preserved track in winter

    Photo: Michael F. H. Barth / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Mahnmal Gleis 17, In Berlin: Bahnhof Grunewald, Home page

  2. Anhalter Bahnhof platforms, 1942

    Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 003395ra / Fotograf: Willy Pragher / CC BY 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Anhalter Bahnhof

  3. "Block der Frauen", frontal view

    Photo: Manfred Brückels / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Block der Frauen (Denkmal Rosenstraße)

  4. The "Clou" concert hall, 1911

    Postcard, Kunstverlag Paul Kaufmann, 1911, public domain (via zeno.org / Wikimedia Commons).

    Licence: Public domain. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Konzerthaus "Clou" (Mauerstraße)

  5. Track 69 and ramp, Gedenkort Güterbahnhof Moabit

    Photo: Detlef Bihn / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Güterbahnhof Moabit, In Berlin: Gedenkort Güterbahnhof Moabit

  6. Haus der Statistik, on the former Gerlachstraße

    Photo: Gunnar Klack / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jüdisches Altersheim Gerlachstraße 18–21 ("Sammellager")

  7. Gleis 17: the memorial platform

    Photo: Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY 3.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Mahnmal Gleis 17, Home page

  8. Will Lammert's figure group, Große Hamburger Straße

    Singlespeedfahrer (Wikimedia user) / Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

    Licence: CC0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Gedenkort Große Hamburger Straße (Alter Jüdischer Friedhof, Altenheim, Lammert-Figurengruppe), In Berlin: Jüdisches Altersheim Große Hamburger Straße 26 ("Sammellager"), Home page

  9. Barracks of the Regiment "General Göring", about 1935

    Family collection of Michael Klemp, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Hermann-Göring-Kaserne (today Julius-Leber-Kaserne)

  10. The Levetzowstraße synagogue, about 1914

    Landesarchiv Berlin (photographer unknown), via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

    Licence: Public domain. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Synagoge Levetzowstraße ("Sammellager"), In Berlin: Mahnmal Levetzowstraße

  11. Rosenstraße today

    Photo: Fridolin freudenfett (Wikimedia user) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Rosenstraße 2–4 (former Jewish Community administration building)

  12. The 1914 hospital buildings, Iranische Straße

    Photo: Peter Kuley (Fridolin freudenfett) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jüdisches Krankenhaus, Schulstraße ("Sammellager")

Jewish Berlin

  1. Kulturbund orchestra rehearsing "Judas Maccabaeus", 1934

    Unknown photographer, 1934; family album of Dr. Werner Liebenthal; public domain (via Wikimedia Commons).

    Licence: Public domain. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jewish Berlin

  2. Market stall in Grenadierstraße, 1933

    Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1987-0413-505 / P. Buch / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jewish Berlin

  3. Synagogue in Fasanenstraße, before 1938

    Waldemar Titzenthaler, public domain (via Wikimedia Commons).

    Licence: Public domain. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jewish Berlin

  4. Albert Einstein at a charity concert in the Neue Synagoge, 1930

    Unknown photographer, 1930, public domain (via Wikimedia Commons).

    Licence: Public domain. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jewish Berlin

  5. Perpetrator photograph: Boycott of Jewish shops, 1 April 1933

    Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-14468 / Georg Pahl / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jewish Berlin

  6. Perpetrator photograph: Woman wearing the yellow star, Berlin, September 1941

    Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B04489 / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. Source

    Shown on In Berlin: Jewish Berlin

The destinations

  1. Gatehouse and tracks of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (2019)

    Ingo Mehling / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on Auschwitz, Home page

  2. Perpetrator photograph: Selection on the ramp at Birkenau, Auschwitz Album (1944)

    Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

    Licence: Public domain (per Commons: PD-old-auto, PD-US-alien property; regarded as public domain by Yad Vashem). Source

    Shown on Auschwitz

  3. Obelisk and inscription wall, Bergen-Belsen Memorial

    Losch / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Bergen-Belsen

  4. Memorial of Franconian communities in Izbica

    Anton-kurt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Izbica

  5. Monument to the victims of Nazism, Ninth Fort, Kaunas

    Sergej Orlov / Kauno IX forto muziejus, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Kowno

  6. Radegast station, Łódź (2026)

    Kuroczynski / Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

    Licence: CC0. Source

    Shown on Litzmannstadt

  7. Deportees from Germany and the Protectorate arrive in the Łódź ghetto (1941)

    Mendel Grossman / Ghetto Fighters’ House Archives, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

    Licence: Public domain (PD-old-70). Source

    Shown on Litzmannstadt

  8. Mausoleum at Majdanek (2018)

    Fallaner / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on Majdanek, Lublin

  9. Barracks and watchtower at the State Museum at Majdanek

    Adrian Tarnowski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source

    Shown on Majdanek

  10. Memorial stone for the Jews deported from Berlin, former Jewish cemetery, Minsk

    Avner / Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

    Licence: CC0. Source

    Shown on Minsk, Maly Trostenez

  11. Blagovshchina forest memorial, Maly Trostenets (2018)

    Homoatrox / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on Maly Trostenez

  12. Memorial stone at the new Jewish cemetery, Piaski (2026)

    Grażyna Adamczyk / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source

    Shown on Piaski

  13. Trawniki railway station (2019)

    Pietras05 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on Trawniki, Piaski

  14. Ravensbrück Memorial seen from the Schwedtsee (2021)

    Zartesbitter / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source

    Shown on Ravensbrück

  15. Memorial stone at Kalevi-Liiva, Estonia

    Kristjan Lust / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

    Licence: CC BY 2.0. Source

    Shown on Raasiku bei Reval

  16. Rumbula Forest Memorial, Riga (2026)

    Dreamcatcher25 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source

    Shown on Riga

  17. Former roll-call area, Sachsenhausen (2019)

    Geoprofi Lars / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on Sachsenhausen

  18. Mound of ashes at Sobibór (before the redesign)

    Merlin (Wikimedia Commons user) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Sobibor

  19. Jewish cemetery and crematorium, Terezín

    User יעקב / Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

    Licence: Public domain (PD-self). Source

    Shown on Theresienstadt

  20. Field of stones at Treblinka (2013)

    Adrian Grycuk / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 pl. Source

    Shown on Treblinka

  21. Inside the Umschlagplatz Memorial, Warsaw

    Cyberwiked / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source

    Shown on Warschau

People

  1. Leo Baeck, portrait published in "Ost und West" (1912)

    Ost und West, 1912 (via HathiTrust / Wikimedia Commons); photographer unknown.

    Licence: Public domain (Commons: PD-US-expired). Source

    Shown on Leo Baeck

  2. Dr. Cora Berliner, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, January 1920

    Photo: A. Matzdorff, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 1920 (digitised by Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin).

    Licence: CC0 (as stated on Commons; actual basis: public domain by expiry). Source

    Shown on Cora Berliner

  3. Stolperstein for Paul Maximilian Eppstein, Ludwigkirchstraße 10a, Berlin-Wilmersdorf

    Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Paul Eppstein

  4. Margot Friedländer at a reading, 2012

    Photo: Scott-Hendryk Dillan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Margot Friedländer, née Bendheim

  5. Stolperstein for Paula Fürst, Kaiserdamm 101, Berlin-Charlottenburg

    Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Paula Fürst

  6. Memorial plaque for Lilli Henoch, Fritz-Lesch-Straße 32, Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen

    Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Lilli Henoch

  7. Stolperstein for Hannah Karminski, Oranienburger Straße 22, Berlin-Mitte

    Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Hannah Karminski

  8. Stolperstein for Gertrud Kolmar, Münchener Straße 18a, Berlin-Schöneberg

    Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Gertrud Kolmar, née Chodziesner

  9. Martha Mosse, 1927 (Becker & Maass studio)

    Photo: Becker & Maass (Marie Boehm), Berlin 1927 / Wikimedia Commons.

    Licence: Public domain (PD-old-auto-expired, deathyear=1953). Source

    Shown on Martha Mosse

  10. Mural "Else Ury" by Ulrike Pusch (2022), Spandauer Damm 93, Berlin-Charlottenburg

    Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0; mural: Ulrike Pusch.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

    Shown on Else Ury

Maps

Coastlines and land areas: Natural Earth (1:50m), public domain, in the TopoJSON edition of world-atlas by Mike Bostock (ISC licence).

Typefaces

Frank Ruhl Libre (The Frank Ruhl Libre Project Authors) and Assistant (The Assistant Project Authors, based on Source Sans Pro by Adobe), both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, served from this site.