12.01.19431,190 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

26. 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 1,190 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 1190 on the Gestapo list (1176 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 1196; Gleis 17 plate 1190; Yad Vashem 1,196 (Gottwaldt/Meyhöfer estimate). Among the deportees were 74 people from the Jewish hospital at Auguststraße 17 and the author Else Ury (Yad Vashem). 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 – 26. Osttransport Departure 12.01.1943; 1190 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092734 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) 12.01.1943, Berlin, 1196, arrival 13 Jan 1943, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 26, Moabit, 1196, arrival 13.01.1943
  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: 12.1.1943 / 1190 / Berlin-Auschwitz