Berlin Deportations1941–1945

11.07.1942210 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

XVII. Teiltransport

What happened

Joined to a collective transport with Jews from Hamburg, Westphalia, Mecklenburg, Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt bound for Auschwitz. No prisoner numbers are known to have been issued for this transport, and statistik-des-holocaust.de concludes that the deportees were murdered immediately on arrival.

About Auschwitz (Oświęcim)

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.

The transport list

5 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

Destination: long uncertain (Warsaw or Auschwitz; berlin.de still "Warschau oder Auschwitz (?)"); statistik-des-holocaust.de shows from a Gestapo Braunschweig letter and Magdeburg finance office files that it was Auschwitz, and Yad Vashem agrees. Count: 210 on the Berlin "Teiltransport" list (199 Berlin, 11 Potsdam, including psychiatric patients from Eberswalde and Neuruppin); the whole train totalled 1,005 per statistik-des-holocaust.de. Gottwaldt/Schulle list "Hamburg/Bielefeld – Berlin 697"; berlin.de 192; Gleis 17 210. Survivors: Yad Vashem reports that the Berlin memorial book mentions two unnamed survivors, but it could trace none; left null. Yad Vashem calls it "17. Osttransport (Welle XX)". 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 – XVII. Teiltransport Departure 11.07.42; 210 on the Berlin list; total 1,005; destination Auschwitz documented; no prisoner numbers issued
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092663 Departure 11 July 1942; 210 from Berlin; connected to the "Hamburg–Auschwitz" transport; 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) 11 July 1942, Hamburg/Bielefeld – Berlin, 697, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 17, 192, "Warschau oder Auschwitz (?)"
  5. Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit (11 July 1942)
  6. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 11.7.1942 / 210 / Berlin-unbekannt