Berlin Deportations1941–1945

23.06.1942202 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Maly Trostenez

XVI. Transport

What happened

Probably attached at Königsberg to a transport of East Prussian Jews that reached Minsk on 26 June 1942; according to Yad Vashem, after a selection of 20 to 50 men for forced labour the others were shot at pits in the Blagovshchina forest near Maly Trostenets or murdered in gas vans.

About Maly Trostenez (Maly Trostenets)

The people on this transport

2 of the 202 people on this transport are named here so far. 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

Date disputed: statistik-des-holocaust.de documents 23 June 1942 from Oberfinanzpräsident files (26 June is only the date the Gestapo sent the list); Yad Vashem gives 24 June; the Bundesarchiv chronology lists the combined train as "24./26. Juni 1942, Königsberg – Berlin, 770"; the Berlin–Minsk memorial book (per Tagesspiegel) gives 24/25 June; Gleis 17 26 June. Destination uncertain: statistik-des-holocaust.de "Minsk (?)"; Yad Vashem and Reuss/Schneider (Metropol) "Maly Trostenets" ("vermutlich"); Gleis 17 "unbekannt". The arrival date assumes the Berlin group travelled on the Königsberg train (DA 40), as Yad Vashem and statistik-des-holocaust.de suggest. Count: 202 on the Gestapo list (198 from Berlin) per statistik-des-holocaust.de, matching the Gleis 17 plate; berlin.de 202. Deportees included Reichsvereinigung staff (Cora Berliner, Paula Fürst, Arthur Lilienthal); sometimes called the "Straftransport" of the Reichsvereinigung. Survivors: Yad Vashem notes none are listed in the Berlin memorial book; left null. 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 – XVI. Transport Departure 23.06.42 (documented); 202 deported (198 from Berlin); destination Minsk (?); possible link to Königsberg train
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092662 Departure 24 June; Königsberg train DA 40 reached Minsk 26 June; Maly Trostenets; selection and shootings; Grunewald station (disputed)
  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) "24./26. Juni 1942", Königsberg – Berlin, 770, arrival 26 June 1942, Minsk
  4. Metropol Verlag: A. Reuss / K. Schneider (eds.), Berlin–Minsk. Unvergessene Lebensgeschichten (2013) – publisher description About 200 Berlin Jews deported at the end of June 1942, probably via Königsberg, to Maly Trostinez and murdered there
  5. Michael Wildt, „Die Zivilisation fällt ab wie Blätter im Herbst“, Der Tagesspiegel, 30 July 2013 (on the Berlin–Minsk Gedenkbuch) Second Berlin–Minsk deportation dated 24/25 June 1942
  6. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 16, 24.06.1942, 202, arrival 26.06.1942, Minsk
  7. Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit ("24./26. Juni 1942 ab Berlin über Königsberg")
  8. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 26.6.1942 / 202 / Berlin-unbekannt