Berlin Deportations1941–1945

19.01.19421,009 peopleBahnhof Grunewald to Riga

IX. Transport

What happened

Arrived at Skirotava; some were murdered on arrival (gas vans or shootings in the Rumbula forest), the others taken to the Riga ghetto, where many were later killed in the "Aktion Dünamünde" 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, Gestapo list with no deletions, 1,009, all from Berlin. Gottwaldt/Schulle 1,002; Yad Vashem "995–1,002"; Gleis 17 plate 1,005. Survivors: Wolfgang Scheffler (2002) 19, Rita Meyhöfer 9 (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 – IX. Transport Departure 19.01.42; 1,009 deported, all from Berlin
  3. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092956 Grunewald station; arrival 23 Jan; fate in Riga; survivors Meyhöfer 9 / Scheffler 19
  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) 19 Jan 1942, 1002, arrival 23 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. 9, Grunewald, 1002
  6. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 19.1.1942 / 1005 / Berlin-Riga