03.10.19421,021 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Theresienstadt
What happened
The holocaust.cz database counts 922 victims and 73 survivors among the 995 people it records on this transport. Individual victim records show onward deportation from Theresienstadt to Treblinka (1 person; transports of September–October 1942) and Auschwitz (207).
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
Berlin designation in the deportation lists: "3. großer Alterstransport" (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Theresienstadt registration number I/71. Deportee counts differ: Gedenkbuch 1021; statistik-des-holocaust.de 1022; holocaust.cz transport list 1021; holocaust.cz victim-database records 995; Yad Vashem 1021. Recorded here: 1021. Survivors: holocaust.cz: 73 survivors among 995 recorded deportees; Rita Meyhöfer (cited by Yad Vashem): 59 known survivors; Alfred Gottwaldt (cited by Yad Vashem): 72. statistik-des-holocaust.de counts 1022 on the Theresienstadt list (946 from Berlin, 76 from Brandenburg, incl. 38 from Potsdam), one name being marked as struck from the original list; Theresienstadt registered 1021. A handwritten "14 Oktober" on the Gestapo list is the date of the covering letter, not of departure; earlier plans named 5.10.1942. Station conflict: Yad Vashem and Gleis 69 (after Gottwaldt/Schulle) give Güterbahnhof Moabit (Putlitzstraße); a Berlin Stolperstein biography (Mommsenstraße 56) says this transport left from Bahnhof Grunewald. Moabit is recorded as the better-attested station. The two survivor figures differ substantially; the holocaust.cz figure (based on individual records) is recorded. Reichsbahn train designation Da 523 per Yad Vashem ("ordered by the Gestapo and provided by Deutsche Reichsbahn").
- Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch: Chronologie der Deportationen aus dem Deutschen Reich (based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005 and the Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch 2000) Berlin -> Theresienstadt, departure 3. Oktober 1942, arrival 4. Oktober 1942, 1021 persons.
- statistik-des-holocaust.de: Bezirksstelle Berlin, deportation overview (from Gestapo transport lists in the files of the Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg, NARA A3355) Departure 3.10.42, Berlin designation "3. großer Alterstransport", Theresienstadt no. I/71, arrival 4.10.42, 1022 deportees (946 from the Berlin district office).
- statistik-des-holocaust.de: transport list and commentary for this transport group Transport list reproduction, departure date and commentary.
- holocaust.cz (Terezín Initiative Institute): list of all transports to Terezín, by place of departure I/71, 4. 10. 1942, Berlín, 1021 persons.
- holocaust.cz database of victims: Transport I/71 (Berlin -> Terezín) Page dated 04.10.1942; deported: 995, murdered: 922, survived: 73.
- holocaust.cz database of victims: search by transport and place of imprisonment Search "Transport: I/71" combined with each place of imprisonment: Treblinka 1, Auschwitz 207 (queried October 2026).
- Yad Vashem, Transports to Extinction: Transport I/71 from Berlin to Theresienstadt Transport I/71, departure 03/10/1942, 1021 deportees; "According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, 59 deportees from this transport are known to have survived".
- Gedenkort Gleis 69 (Moabit): Der Deportationsbahnhof (list based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) Lists the 3.10.1942 transport to Theresienstadt among the transports that departed from Güterbahnhof Moabit.
- Berlin.de, Stolpersteine Mommsenstraße 56 (Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf) States that the "3. großer Alterstransport" of 3 October 1942 left from Bahnhof Grunewald (conflicting station).
- holocaust.cz: list of transports from Terezín, by date of departure Transports Bo–Bx from Terezín to Treblinka, 19.9.–22.10.1942.