15.08.19421,004 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Riga
What happened
After arrival at Skirotava station on 18 August 1942 almost all deportees were shot in the forests near Riga (Yad Vashem names Rumbula and Biķernieki).
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
Count: Gestapo list of 1,045 names, 41 deleted = 1,004 (1,002 from Berlin) per statistik-des-holocaust.de; Gottwaldt/Schulle "997/1004"; Gleis 17 plate 1,003. Survivors: Wolfgang Scheffler (2002) names one survivor, a nurse; the 1995 Berlin memorial book listed none (both via Yad Vashem). Station: Yad Vashem (freight station Putlitzstraße/Quitzowstraße, Moabit), berlin.de and Gleis 69 agree.
- Statistik des Holocaust – 18. Osttransport Departure 15.08.42; 1,004 deported (1,002 from Berlin)
- Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092664 Moabit freight station Putlitzstraße/Quitzowstraße; train Da 401; arrival 18 Aug; shot near Riga; one survivor (Scheffler)
- 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) 15 Aug 1942, 997/1004, arrival 18 Aug 1942, Riga
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 18, Moabit, 997 (1004)
- Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit
- Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 15.8.1942 / 1003 / Berlin-Riga