Berlin Deportations1941–1945

02.03.19431,758 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

32. 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 1,758 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 1758 on the Gestapo list (1529 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 1756; Gleis 17 plate 1758; Yad Vashem "approximately 1,500" (after Danuta Czech). Second "Fabrikaktion" transport; also carried 158 Jews deported from Norway (brought via Stettin on the ship "Gotenland") and 59 from East Prussia (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Auschwitz registered 894 Jews on 3 March from this and other transports from the Reich arriving the same day (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Yad Vashem (after Czech) gives 535 men and 145 women registered and about 820 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 – 32. Osttransport Departure 02.03.1943; 1758 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092741 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 26 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) 02.03.1943, Berlin, 1756, arrival 3 March 1943, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 32, Moabit, 1756
  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: 2.3.1943 / 1758 / Berlin-Auschwitz