Berlin Deportations1941–1945

13.01.19421,036 peopleBahnhof Grunewald to Riga

VIII. Transport

What happened

Arrived in severe frost at Skirotava; some deportees were murdered on arrival (gas vans or shootings in the Rumbula forest), the rest taken to the Riga ghetto, where many were later killed in the "Aktion Dünamünde" in 1942 or deported onward.

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: statistik-des-holocaust.de, from the Gestapo list (1,051 names, 13 crossed out, 2 duplicates) = 1,036, of whom 994 from Berlin, 40 from Potsdam and 2 from Duisburg. Gottwaldt/Schulle 1,034; Yad Vashem "1,027–1,035"; Gleis 17 plate 1,026. Survivors: Wolfgang Scheffler (2002) 15, Rita Meyhöfer 10 (both as cited by Yad Vashem). 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. Statistik des Holocaust – VIII. Transport Departure 13.01.42; 1,036 deported (994 from Berlin)
  3. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092955 Grunewald station; train Da 44; arrival 16 Jan; fate in Riga; survivors Meyhöfer 10 / Scheffler 15
  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) 13 Jan 1942, 1034, arrival 16 Jan 1942, Riga, Ghetto
  5. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 8, Grunewald, 1034
  6. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 13.1.1942 / 1026 / Berlin-Riga