Berlin Deportations1941–1945

19.02.19431,000 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

29. Osttransport

What happened

On arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 140 men and 85 women were registered for forced labour; according to Yad Vashem (after Danuta Czech) the remaining 775 were murdered in the gas chambers.

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 1000 on the Gestapo list (956 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 997; Gleis 17 plate 1000; Yad Vashem 997. Also deported were 21 Jews from Hamburg and 8 German Jews from Finland who had been taken to Reval (Tallinn) in October 1942 and from there to Berlin (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Yad Vashem prints the arrival date as "20/07/1943", an evident error; 20 February per Gottwaldt/Schulle and the Yad Vashem text. 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 – 29. Osttransport Departure 19.02.1943; 1000 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092737 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 6 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) 19.02.1943, Berlin, 997, arrival 20 Feb 1943, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 29, Moabit, 997
  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: 19.2.1943 / 1000 / Berlin-Auschwitz