Berlin Deportations1941–1945

14.11.19411,030 peopleBahnhof Grunewald to Minsk

V. Transport

What happened

Held in the separate section of the Minsk ghetto for Jews deported from the Reich; nearly all were murdered there or at the nearby killing site of Maly Trostenets.

About Minsk

The people on this transport

The names of the people on this transport are being compiled. We are working from the Memorial Book of the German Federal Archives and the surviving transport lists, and add each name only once it has been checked against them.

If someone you know of was on this transport, you can search the Memorial Book of the Federal Archives or write to us so that they can be remembered here.

Sources

Notes on the sources

Count disputed: Gottwaldt/Schulle give two figures, 956 and 1,030 (berlin.de "956 (1030)"; the Bundesarchiv chronology prints "966/1030"); Yad Vashem "956–1,030" (965 names in the Berlin memorial book); Gleis 17 plate 956. Stiftung Denkmal describes "über 1.000 Menschen", the Berlin–Minsk memorial book (Reuss/Schneider 2013) "1000". 1,030 recorded as the figure most consistent with these; treat as approximate. Survivors: German Wikipedia cites Petra Rentrop (2011) for 4 survivors; not independently verified, so left null. Station: Yad Vashem, Stiftung Denkmal and the Tagesspiegel state Grunewald.

  1. Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Until spring 1942 deportees had to board the trains on special tracks at Bahnhof Grunewald
  2. Gedenkort Güterbahnhof Moabit: Historischer Hintergrund The first deportations from Berlin in 1941 left from Gleis 17 at Bahnhof Grunewald
  3. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092822 Grunewald station; train Da 54; 956–1,030 people; arrival Minsk 18 Nov 1941
  4. Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas: »Wie lange werden wir hier sein?« – Deportationen nach Minsk 1941 Over 1,000 people left Bahnhof Grunewald on 14 Nov for Minsk; nearly all were murdered
  5. Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch – Chronologie der Deportationen aus dem Deutschen Reich (states it relies primarily on Gottwaldt/Schulle, Die „Judendeportationen“ aus dem Deutschen Reich 1941–1945, 2005) 14 Nov 1941, 966/1030, arrival 18 Nov 1941, Minsk, Ghetto
  6. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 5, Grunewald, 956 (1030), arrival 18.11.1941
  7. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 14.11.1941 / 956 / Berlin-Minsk
  8. Metropol Verlag: A. Reuss / K. Schneider (eds.), Berlin–Minsk. Unvergessene Lebensgeschichten (2013) – publisher description "1000" Jewish women, men and children deported to the Minsk ghetto on 14 Nov 1941
  9. Michael Wildt, „Die Zivilisation fällt ab wie Blätter im Herbst“, Der Tagesspiegel, 30 July 2013 (on the Berlin–Minsk Gedenkbuch) About a thousand Berlin Jews deported from Bahnhof Grunewald to Minsk
  10. Wikipedia (de): Ghetto Minsk – used only as a pointer to Rentrop (2011) and Gottwaldt/Schulle (2005) Pointer: table gives Da 54, 956/1,030, 4 survivors (after Rentrop 2011)