Berlin Deportations1941–1945

01.03.19431,736 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

31. Osttransport

What happened

Most deportees were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau on arrival. statistik-des-holocaust.de attributes the 677 prisoners (292 men, 385 women) registered on 2 March 1943 to this transport.

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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 1736 on the Gestapo list (1647 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 1722; Gleis 17 plate 1736; Yad Vashem "approximately 1,500" (after Danuta Czech). First transport after the "Fabrikaktion" of 27 February 1943 (list of 1,838 names, 102 deleted). Selection figures conflict: statistik-des-holocaust.de attributes the 677 Jews (292 men, 385 women) newly registered in Auschwitz on 2 March to this transport, implying 1,059 murdered on arrival; Yad Vashem, following Danuta Czech, gives 150 men registered and 1,350 murdered. 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 – 31. Osttransport Departure 01.03.1943; 1736 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092740 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 12 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) 01.03.1943, Berlin, 1722, arrival 2 March 1943, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 31, Moabit, 1722
  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: 1.3.1943 / 1736 / Berlin-Auschwitz