26.02.19431,100 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz
What happened
On arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 156 men and 106 women were registered for forced labour; according to Yad Vashem (after Danuta Czech) the remaining 651 were murdered in the gas chambers.
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.
Sources
Notes on the sources
Count: statistik-des-holocaust.de 1100 on the Gestapo list (901 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 913/1095; Gleis 17 plate 1000; Yad Vashem 913. Left the day before the "Fabrikaktion"; included 108 Jews from Leipzig, 67 from Magdeburg and others from Brandenburg and elsewhere (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer, as cited by Yad Vashem. Station: Yad Vashem (Putlitzstraße station, Moabit), berlin.de and Gleis 69 give Moabit.
- Statistik des Holocaust – 30. Osttransport Departure 26.02.1943; 1100 deported
- Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092739 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 11 known survivor(s)
- 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) 26.02.1943, Berlin, 913/1095, arrival 27 Feb 1943, Auschwitz
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 30, Moabit, 913 (1095)
- Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit
- Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 26.2.1943 / 1000 / Berlin-Auschwitz