Berlin Deportations1941–1945

03.04.1942643 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Warschau

XII. Transport

What happened

Arrived at the Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw ghetto; the deportees were first held in "quarantine" at Leszno Street 109–111 and then taken into the ghetto.

About Warschau (Warsaw)

The people on this transport

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The transport list

23 further documents for this transport: Related documents from other archives: publication needs the holding archive’s permission. We will show them once that permission has been given.

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Sources

Notes on the sources

Date disputed: most literature (Gottwaldt/Schulle, Yad Vashem, Gleis 17, berlin.de) gives 2 April 1942. statistik-des-holocaust.de shows that Reichsvereinigung correspondence gives 3 April 1942 for the Berlin deportees and that Gestapo Frankfurt/Oder letters state the transport left on 3 April and crossed the Reich border on 4 April (2 April being the day the Frankfurt/Oder deportees were taken to the assembly camp); 3 April is recorded as documented in the files, 2 April being the date commonly used in memorials. Count: 643 people on the Berlin Gestapo list (659 names, 16 deleted); with the Frankfurt/Oder group (366) the train totalled about 1,009 according to statistik-des-holocaust.de. Gottwaldt/Schulle "984/1025"; Yad Vashem "up to 1,025, among them up to 659 from Berlin"; Gleis 17 plate 641; Adam Czerniaków recorded 1,025 arrivals from Berlin on 5 April. Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer (via Yad Vashem) 1. Station disputed: Gleis 69 e.V. lists this train among those that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit (from 28 March 1942 on), whereas the Yad Vashem entry states it left from Grunewald station. Gleis 69 itself notes that the exact date of the switch from Grunewald to Moabit is not documented. Recorded as "moabit" following the Moabit station research; treat as uncertain.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – XII. Transport Departure 03.04.42 (argued); 643 from Berlin, total about 1,009 with Frankfurt/Oder group
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092667 Departure 2 April; arrival Umschlagplatz 5 April; quarantine Leszno 109–111; Grunewald station (disputed); Meyhöfer: 1 survivor
  3. 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) 2 April 1942, 984/1025, arrival 5 April 1942, Warschau
  4. Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit (2 April 1942)
  5. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 2.4.1942 / 641 / Berlin-Warschau