Berlin Deportations1941–1945

26.09.1942809 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Raasiku bei Reval

20. Osttransport

What happened

The train travelled via Riga to Raasiku near Reval (Tallinn). Most deportees were selected on arrival, taken by bus to the dunes at Kalevi-Liiva and shot by Estonian police under German command; a small group of women and men was sent to the Jägala camp for forced labour. Very few survived.

About Raasiku bei Reval (Raasiku / Kalevi-Liiva)

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

Count: Berlin Gestapo list of 853 names, 44 deleted = 809 (787 from Berlin) per statistik-des-holocaust.de; Akim Jah (HiKo) describes the surviving list as 812 names. Jews from Frankfurt am Main brought to Berlin were added: 234 (statistik-des-holocaust.de) or 237 (Akim Jah), so the train left Berlin with about 1,043 people. Gottwaldt/Schulle "Frankfurt (M.) – Berlin, 1049"; Gleis 17 plate 811 with the date 29.9.1942. Survivors: at least one (Helga Drexler, later Verleger) is documented by Akim Jah; no count found, so left null. Arrival date per Gottwaldt/Schulle (Bundesarchiv); berlin.de prints the impossible "31.09.1942". No Yad Vashem entry found for this transport.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 20. Osttransport Departure 26.09.42; 809 on the Berlin list (787 from Berlin); 234 from Frankfurt/Main; total 1,043
  2. Akim Jah, „September 1942: Die Transportliste zur Deportation von Jüdinnen und Juden aus Berlin“, Historische Kommission zu Berlin (100 Schlüsselquellen) Left from Güterbahnhof Moabit on 26 Sept 1942; list of 812 names; 237 from Frankfurt; via Riga to Raasiku; shootings at Kalevi-Liiva; Jägala; survivor Helga Drexler
  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. September 1942", Frankfurt (M.) – Berlin, 1049, arrival 30 Sept 1942, Raasiku
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 20, 26.09.1942, Moabit, 1049
  5. Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit
  6. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 29.9.1942 / 811 / Berlin-Raasiku/Jägala