Berlin Deportations1941–1945

29.10.1942100 peopleAnhalter Bahnhof to Theresienstadt

I/73

What happened

The holocaust.cz database counts 90 victims and 10 survivors among the 100 people it records on this transport. Individual victim records show onward deportation from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz (35).

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: "69. Alterstransport" (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Theresienstadt registration number I/73. Survivors: holocaust.cz: 10 survivors among 100 recorded deportees; Rita Meyhöfer (cited by Yad Vashem): 9 known survivors.

  1. Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch: Chronologie der Deportationen aus dem Deutschen Reich (based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005 and the Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch 2000) Berlin -> Theresienstadt, departure 29. Oktober 1942, arrival 29. Oktober 1942, 100 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 29.10.42, Berlin designation "69. Alterstransport", Theresienstadt no. I/73, arrival 29.10.42, 100 deportees (100 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/73, 29. 10. 1942, Berlín, 100 persons.
  5. holocaust.cz database of victims: Transport I/73 (Berlin -> Terezín) Page dated 29.10.1942; deported: 100, murdered: 90, survived: 10.
  6. holocaust.cz database of victims: search by transport and place of imprisonment Search "Transport: I/73" combined with each place of imprisonment: Auschwitz 35 (queried October 2026).
  7. Yad Vashem, Transports to Extinction: Transport I/73 from Berlin to Theresienstadt Transport I/73, departure 29/10/1942, 100 deportees; "According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, nine deportees are known to have survived this transport".
  8. Memorial plaque "Gedenken an die Deportationen nach Theresienstadt", Askanischer Platz (Anhalter Bahnhof), 2008, text by Dietlinde Peters (Gedenktafeln in Berlin) Lists this transport (29.10.1942, 100 persons) among the 116 transports that left Anhalter Bahnhof for Theresienstadt.