Berlin Deportations1941–1945

27.11.19411,053 peopleBahnhof Grunewald to Riga

VII. Transport

What happened

On arrival at Skirotava station near Riga on 30 November 1941 the deportees were taken to the Rumbula forest and shot the same day, before the mass shooting of Riga ghetto Jews there.

About Riga

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: Gottwaldt/Schulle (Bundesarchiv, berlin.de) and Yad Vashem 1,053 (1,047 names in the Berlin memorial book); Gleis 17 plate 1,035. Survivors: Yad Vashem states that all 1,053 were murdered, yet also reports that Rita Meyhöfer notes two survivors without explanation; left null. Station: Yad Vashem states that this train left from Grunewald station; Gleis 69 e.V. (trains until spring 1942) and the Gedenkort Güterbahnhof Moabit (the first deportations in 1941) also name Bahnhof Grunewald; the berlin.de list (after Gottwaldt/Schulle) gives "Grunewald" for transports 1–10 but notes that the loading stations are not named in the original lists and are known from eyewitness accounts.

  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 5092954 Grunewald station; train Da 31; arrival Skirotava 30 Nov; all 1,053 murdered in Rumbula forest on 30 Nov 1941; Meyhöfer notes two survivors
  4. 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) 27 Nov 1941, 1053, arrival 30 Nov 1941, Riga
  5. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 7, Grunewald, 1053, arrival 30.11.1941
  6. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 27.11.1941 / 1035 / Berlin-Riga
  7. Statistik des Holocaust – I.–VII. Transport (Berlin 1941) Departure 27.11.41, destination Riga