26.10.1942800 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Riga
What happened
According to Yad Vashem, the deportees were shot in the forests near Riga shortly after their arrival on 29 October 1942.
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
Linked to the "Gemeindeaktion" of 20 October 1942: the board of the Berlin Jewish community reported 801 people "abgewandert" with this transport, among them 345 employees of the Berlin Jewish community and 164 relatives (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Count: Gestapo list of 808 names, 8 deleted = 800, matching the Gleis 17 plate; Gottwaldt/Schulle 798; Yad Vashem "up to 798". Survivors: Yad Vashem gives no survivor figure; left null. Station: Yad Vashem, berlin.de and Gleis 69 give Moabit.
- Statistik des Holocaust – 22. Osttransport Departure 26.10.42; 800 deported; "Gemeindeaktion" context
- Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092726 Moabit freight station; arrival 29 Oct; shot near Riga
- 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) 26 Oct 1942, 798, arrival 29 Oct 1942, Riga, Ghetto
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 22, Moabit, 798
- 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: 26.10.1942 / 800 / Berlin-Riga