28.03.1942973 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Piaski
What happened
After a stop in Lublin the train arrived at Trawniki, from where the deportees walked to the transit ghetto of Piaski. Its inmates were deported from 1942 to the Bełżec and Sobibór extermination camps; as far as is known, none of the Berlin deportees survived.
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.
Sources
Notes on the sources
Count: statistik-des-holocaust.de, Gestapo list of 985 names with 12 deleted = 973, all from Berlin (matches the Reichsvereinigung statistics for March 1942 and the Gleis 17 plate). Gottwaldt/Schulle give 985. Station: Gleis 69 e.V. states that, according to current research, this was the first transport from Güterbahnhof Moabit; no source states otherwise. The Gleis 17 plate gives the destination as "Distrikt Lublin".
- Statistik des Holocaust – XI. Transport Departure 28.03.42; 973 deported, all from Berlin
- Gleis 69 e.V. / Humboldt-Universität: Ausstellung „11. Osttransport Moabit – Piaski“ Boarded at Güterbahnhof Moabit on 28 March 1942; arrival via Lublin at Trawniki, walk to Piaski; Piaski deportations to Bełżec and Sobibór; no known Berlin survivor
- Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) First train in its Moabit list: 28 March 1942 to Piaski, arrival 30 March 1942
- 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) 28 March 1942, 985, arrival 30 March 1942, Piaski
- Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 28.3.1942 / 973 / Berlin-Distrikt Lublin