Berlin Deportations1941–1945

04.03.19431,142 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

34. Osttransport

What happened

According to an Auschwitz telex of 8 March 1943 (transport of 1,128 Jews, received 5 March), 389 men (Buna) and 96 women were sent to forced labour, and 151 men and 492 women and children were murdered ("sonderbehandelt").

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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 1142 on the Gestapo list (1141 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 1120; Gleis 17 plate 1143; Yad Vashem 1,120 (Czech: 1,128). statistik-des-holocaust.de gives 1,143 in its overview table but 1,142 on the transport page (Kurt Löwenthal is listed twice); the Gleis 17 plate reads 1,143. Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer, as cited by Yad Vashem. Arrival: the Auschwitz telex of 8 March 1943 quoted by statistik-des-holocaust.de gives "Eingang 5.3.43"; Gottwaldt/Schulle and Yad Vashem give 6 March. Station: Yad Vashem (Putlitzstraße station, Moabit), berlin.de and Gleis 69 give Moabit.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 34. Osttransport Departure 04.03.1943; 1142 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092743 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 14 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) 04.03.1943, Berlin, 1120, arrival 6 March 1943, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 34, Moabit, 1120, arrival 06.03.1943
  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: 4.3.1943 / 1143 / Berlin-Auschwitz