Berlin Deportations1941–1945

02.06.194250 peopleAnhalter Bahnhof to Theresienstadt

I/1

What happened

The holocaust.cz database counts 50 victims and 0 survivors among the 50 people it records on this transport. Individual victim records show onward deportation from Theresienstadt to Treblinka (12 people; transports of September–October 1942) and Auschwitz (4).

About Theresienstadt (Terezín)

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.

If someone you know of was on this transport, you can search the Memorial Book of the Federal Archives or write to us so that they can be remembered here.

Sources

Notes on the sources

Berlin designation in the deportation lists: "1. Alterstransport" (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Theresienstadt registration number I/1. Survivors: holocaust.cz: 0 survivors among 50 recorded deportees; Rita Meyhöfer (cited by Yad Vashem): 25 (I/1–I/3 combined) known survivors. Yad Vashem gives Rita Meyhöfer's survivor figure only for the first three transports combined (25); holocaust.cz gives 0, 0 and 26 respectively. Station: Yad Vashem and the minutes of the Reichsvereinigung board meeting of 31.5.1942 (quoted by statistik-des-holocaust.de) describe the deportees being taken by tram from Monbijouplatz to Anhalter Bahnhof and led through a side entrance to the platform.

  1. Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch: Chronologie der Deportationen aus dem Deutschen Reich (based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005 and the Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch 2000) Berlin -> Theresienstadt, departure 2. Juni 1942, arrival 2. Juni 1942, 50 persons.
  2. statistik-des-holocaust.de: Bezirksstelle Berlin, deportation overview (from Gestapo transport lists in the files of the Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg, NARA A3355) Departure 2.6.42, Berlin designation "1. Alterstransport", Theresienstadt no. I/1, arrival 2.6.42, 50 deportees (50 from the Berlin district office).
  3. statistik-des-holocaust.de: transport list and commentary for this transport group Transport list reproduction, departure date and commentary.
  4. holocaust.cz (Terezín Initiative Institute): list of all transports to Terezín, by place of departure I/1, 2. 6. 1942, Berlín, 50 persons.
  5. holocaust.cz database of victims: Transport I/1 (Berlin -> Terezín) Page dated 02.06.1942; deported: 50, murdered: 50, survived: 0.
  6. holocaust.cz database of victims: search by transport and place of imprisonment Search "Transport: I/1" combined with each place of imprisonment: Treblinka 12, Auschwitz 4 (queried October 2026).
  7. Yad Vashem, Transports to Extinction: Transport I/1 from Berlin to Theresienstadt Transport I/1, departure 02/06/1942, 50 deportees; "According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, 25 people who were on the first three transports from Berlin to Theresienstadt survived".
  8. Memorial plaque "Gedenken an die Deportationen nach Theresienstadt", Askanischer Platz (Anhalter Bahnhof), 2008, text by Dietlinde Peters (Gedenktafeln in Berlin) Lists this transport (2.6.1942, 50 persons) among the 116 transports that left Anhalter Bahnhof for Theresienstadt.
  9. holocaust.cz: list of transports from Terezín, by date of departure Transports Bo–Bx from Terezín to Treblinka, 19.9.–22.10.1942.