Berlin Deportations1941–1945

14.09.19421,000 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Theresienstadt

I/65

What happened

The holocaust.cz database counts 942 victims and 59 survivors among the 1001 people it records on this transport. Individual victim records show onward deportation from Theresienstadt to Treblinka (39 people; transports of September–October 1942) and Auschwitz (107).

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: "2. großer Alterstransport" (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Theresienstadt registration number I/65. Deportee counts differ: Gedenkbuch 1000; statistik-des-holocaust.de 1000; holocaust.cz transport list 1000; holocaust.cz victim-database records 1001; Yad Vashem 1000. Recorded here: 1000. Survivors: holocaust.cz: 59 survivors among 1001 recorded deportees; Rita Meyhöfer (cited by Yad Vashem): 54 known survivors; Alfred Gottwaldt (cited by Yad Vashem): 57. Station: Yad Vashem, Gleis 69 (after Gottwaldt/Schulle) and a Berlin Stolperstein biography (Trautenaustraße 14) state departure from Güterbahnhof Moabit (Putlitzstraße). Among the deportees were 82 residents of the Israelitische Taubstummenanstalt (Jewish institution for the deaf) in Berlin-Weißensee (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Reichsbahn train designation Da 514 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 14. September 1942, arrival 15. September 1942, 1000 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 14.9.42, Berlin designation "2. großer Alterstransport", Theresienstadt no. I/65, arrival 15.9.42, 1000 deportees (1000 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/65, 15. 9. 1942, Berlín, 1000 persons.
  5. holocaust.cz database of victims: Transport I/65 (Berlin -> Terezín) Page dated 15.09.1942; deported: 1001, murdered: 942, survived: 59.
  6. holocaust.cz database of victims: search by transport and place of imprisonment Search "Transport: I/65" combined with each place of imprisonment: Treblinka 39, Auschwitz 107 (queried October 2026).
  7. Yad Vashem, Transports to Extinction: Transport I/65 from Berlin to Theresienstadt Transport I/65, departure 14/09/1942, 1000 deportees; "According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, 54 deportees from this transport are known to have survived".
  8. Gedenkort Gleis 69 (Moabit): Der Deportationsbahnhof (list based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) Lists the 14.9.1942 transport to Theresienstadt among the transports that departed from Güterbahnhof Moabit.
  9. Berlin.de, Stolpersteine Trautenaustraße 14 (Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf) Describes the "2. Großer Alterstransport" of about 1000 people departing from Güterbahnhof Moabit, Putlitzstraße (14 September 1942).
  10. holocaust.cz: list of transports from Terezín, by date of departure Transports Bo–Bx from Terezín to Treblinka, 19.9.–22.10.1942.