29.05.1942250 peopleBerlin to Sachsenhausen
What happened
Held as "hostages" in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; at least 126 died there in the following five months (15 of them murdered in the gas chamber at Bernburg in "Aktion 14f13"), and those still alive, probably 124, were deported to Auschwitz with all remaining Jewish prisoners on 22 October 1942. Few, if any, are believed to have lived to see liberation.
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
Second hostage transport, arriving on the evening of 29 May 1942, as described by Morsch (based on the Sachsenhausen memorial's death register). The exact number of survivors is unknown. How they were taken there 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 Second transport of 250 Berlin Jews on 29 May 1942; at least 126 died in Sachsenhausen; 15 murdered at Bernburg; probably 124 deported to Auschwitz on 22 Oct 1942