19.10.1942963 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Riga
What happened
At Riga 81 men were selected for forced labour; the others were shot in the forests near Riga on 22 October 1942, shortly after arrival.
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 999 names, 36 deleted = 963, all from Berlin, including 59 children of the Baruch Auerbach orphanage (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Gleis 17 plate 963; Gottwaldt/Schulle 959; Yad Vashem "up to 962". Survivors: Wolfgang Scheffler (2002) 17, via Yad Vashem. Station: Yad Vashem, berlin.de and Gleis 69 give Moabit.
- Statistik des Holocaust – 21. Osttransport Departure 19.10.42; 963 deported, all from Berlin
- Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092668 Moabit freight station; arrival 22 Oct; 81 men selected; others shot; Scheffler: 17 survivors
- 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) 19 Oct 1942, 959, arrival 22 Oct 1942, Riga, Ghetto
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 21, Moabit, 959
- 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: 19.10.1942 / 963 / Berlin-Riga