Berlin Deportations1941–1945

09.12.19421,000 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

24. 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

1 of the 1,000 people on this transport is named here so far. 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 1000 on the Gestapo list (997 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 994; Gleis 17 plate 1000; Yad Vashem 994. Among the deportees were leading staff of the Berlin Jewish community and the Reichsvereinigung arrested after the "Gemeindeaktion", and relatives of the men shot in Sachsenhausen after their arrest on 10 November 1942 (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Yad Vashem's selection figures for this transport are internally inconsistent and are not used. 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 – 24. Osttransport Departure 09.12.1942; 1000 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092731 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 2 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) 09.12.1942, Berlin, 994, arrival 10 Dec 1942, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 24, Moabit, 994, arrival 10.12.1942
  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: 9.12.1942 / 1000 / Berlin-Auschwitz