Berlin Deportations1941–1945

29.11.19421,001 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

23. Osttransport

What happened

On arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau the SS carried out a selection; most deportees were murdered in the gas chambers, and a minority were sent to forced labour, which few survived.

About Auschwitz (Oświęcim)

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: statistik-des-holocaust.de 1001 on the Gestapo list (986 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 998; Gleis 17 plate 1000; Yad Vashem 998. The first Berlin "Osttransport" to Auschwitz; among the deportees were 75 children of the Baruch Auerbach orphanage with their carers (statistik-des-holocaust.de; Yad Vashem: 36 children). statistik-des-holocaust.de shows that prisoner numbers which the Auschwitz "Kalendarium" attributes to a transport from Zichenau on 30 Nov 1942 belong to this transport. Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer, as cited by Yad Vashem. Station: Yad Vashem (Putlitzstraße station, Moabit), berlin.de and Gleis 69 give Moabit.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 23. Osttransport Departure 29.11.1942; 1001 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092727 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 1 known survivor(s)
  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) 29.11.1942, Berlin, 998, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 23, Moabit, 998
  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: 29.11.1942 / 1000 / Berlin-Auschwitz