Berlin Deportations1941–1945

02.06.1942746 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Sobibor

XIV. Transport

What happened

At Lublin at least 36 men were taken off the train and registered in the Majdanek concentration camp (28 of them known by name); the others were presumably taken on to the Sobibór extermination camp and murdered.

About Sobibor (Sobibór)

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.

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The transport list

2 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: Gottwaldt/Schulle (Bundesarchiv, berlin.de), Gleis 17, Gleis 69 e.V. and Yad Vashem (in its entry on the 16th transport; it has no entry for this one) date this transport to 13 June 1942 (arrival Sobibór 15 June). statistik-des-holocaust.de shows from Oberfinanzpräsident files that it left on 2 June 1942: a Gestapo Potsdam letter of 8 June 1942 refers to 35 Jews "am 2.6.1942 nach dem Generalgouvernement" deported with it, and the "13.6.42" note derives from the date of a covering letter. 2 June is recorded as best supported by documents; arrival date left null. Count: Berlin Gestapo list 758 names, 12 deleted = 746 (Gleis 17 plate also 746); with 35 from Potsdam (incl. children of the Beelitz home and their director Sally Bein) the train totalled 781. Gottwaldt/Schulle "748/1030". Destination: statistik-des-holocaust.de "Majdanek/Sobibor", Gottwaldt/Schulle "Sobibór", Gleis 17 "unbekannt". Numbering: berlin.de and Gleis 69 call it the 15th transport ("14. Welle"); statistik-des-holocaust.de lists no "XV. Transport" and places the 5 June 1942 "Sondertransport" to Theresienstadt between XIV and XVI. Station: Gleis 69 e.V. lists this train among those that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit; no other source consulted names a station, and Gleis 69 notes that the exact date of the switch from Grunewald to Moabit is not documented.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – XIV. Transport Departure 02.06.42 (documented); 746 from Berlin, total 781; Majdanek/Sobibor; 36 men registered at Majdanek
  2. 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) 13 June 1942, 748/1030, arrival 15 June 1942, Sobibór
  3. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 15, 13.06.1942, 748 (1030), Sobibór
  4. Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit (13 June 1942, "15. Osttransport")
  5. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 13.6.1942 / 746 / Berlin-unbekannt
  6. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092662 Entry on the 16th transport states that in June 1942 one Berlin transport went to Sobibor on 13 June