28.05.1942154 peopleBerlin to Sachsenhausen
What happened
Taken as "hostages" after the arson attack of 18 May 1942 on the propaganda exhibition "Das Sowjetparadies"; all 154 were shot at "Station Z" in Sachsenhausen on the morning of 29 May 1942, after 96 Jewish prisoners already in the camp had been killed, probably on the evening before.
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
Morsch states that the Berlin hostages were taken to Sachsenhausen in two transports on 28 and 29 May 1942, 404 people in total; the second brought 250 people, and the 154 Berlin Jews shot on 29 May came from the first. The figure of 154 is therefore the first transport as described by Morsch; statistik-des-holocaust.de likewise counts 154 people arrested in Berlin among the 250 shot. How they were taken there (rail or road) is not stated, so station is "unknown". This was a hostage transport, not one of the numbered "Osttransporte".
- Günter Morsch (then director, Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen): „Die Ermordung der jüdischen Geiseln im Mai 1942 im KZ Sachsenhausen“, speech of 27 January 2012 Two transports of Berlin hostages on 28 and 29 May 1942 (404 in total); 96 camp prisoners killed evening of 28 May; 154 Berlin Jews shot on 29 May in "Station Z"
- Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas: »Todesursache: Auf Befehl erschossen.« (80th anniversary of the murder of 250 Jewish men in Sachsenhausen) 250 Jewish men shot in Sachsenhausen on 28/29 May 1942 in reprisal for the Baum group arson attack of 18 May 1942
- Statistik des Holocaust – Sondertransport (5.6.1942) 250 Jews shot on 28/29 May 1942, 154 of them arrested in Berlin