Berlin Deportations1941–1945

17.08.1942997 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Theresienstadt

I/46

What happened

The holocaust.cz database counts 982 victims and 15 survivors among the 997 people it records on this transport. Individual victim records show onward deportation from Theresienstadt to Treblinka (355 people; transports of September–October 1942) and Auschwitz (23). Yad Vashem states that 377 people from this transport were deported to Treblinka in September and October 1942, five more in January (destination not stated), and 19 to Auschwitz in 1944.

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. großer Alterstransport" (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Theresienstadt registration number I/46. Deportee counts differ: Gedenkbuch 997; statistik-des-holocaust.de 1002; holocaust.cz transport list 997; holocaust.cz victim-database records 997; Yad Vashem 997. Recorded here: 997. Survivors: holocaust.cz: 15 survivors among 997 recorded deportees; Rita Meyhöfer (cited by Yad Vashem): 13 known survivors; Alfred Gottwaldt (cited by Yad Vashem): 16. statistik-des-holocaust.de: the Gestapo list sent to the Oberfinanzpräsident names 1002 deportees, while the Theresienstadt arrival list (997) lacks its last page. 997 is recorded here as the figure registered in Theresienstadt. Station: Yad Vashem and Gleis 69 (after Gottwaldt/Schulle) state departure from Güterbahnhof Moabit (Putlitzstraße). A Gestapo instruction of 29.7.1942 (quoted by statistik-des-holocaust.de) had planned loading for the large transports at the Lehrter Güterbahnhof. Many deportees came from Jewish old-age homes (Schönhauser Allee 22, Gerlachstraße 18/21, Artilleriestraße 31, Brunnenstraße 41, Gormannstraße 3) (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Reichsbahn train designation Da 502 per Yad Vashem ("ordered by the Gestapo and provided by Deutsche Reichsbahn").

  1. Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch: Chronologie der Deportationen aus dem Deutschen Reich (based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005 and the Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch 2000) Berlin -> Theresienstadt, departure 17. August 1942, arrival 18. August 1942, 997 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 17.8.42, Berlin designation "1. großer Alterstransport", Theresienstadt no. I/46, arrival 18.8.42, 1002 deportees (1002 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/46, 18. 8. 1942, Berlín, 997 persons.
  5. holocaust.cz database of victims: Transport I/46 (Berlin -> Terezín) Page dated 18.08.1942; deported: 997, murdered: 982, survived: 15.
  6. holocaust.cz database of victims: search by transport and place of imprisonment Search "Transport: I/46" combined with each place of imprisonment: Treblinka 355, Auschwitz 23 (queried October 2026).
  7. Yad Vashem, Transports to Extinction: Transport I/46 from Berlin to Theresienstadt Transport I/46, departure 17/08/1942, 997 deportees; "According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, 13 deportees survived this transport".
  8. Gedenkort Gleis 69 (Moabit): Der Deportationsbahnhof (list based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) Lists the 17.8.1942 transport to Theresienstadt among the transports that departed from Güterbahnhof Moabit.
  9. holocaust.cz: list of transports from Terezín, by date of departure Transports Bo–Bx from Terezín to Treblinka, 19.9.–22.10.1942.