Berlin Deportations1941–1945

06.03.1943662 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

35. Osttransport

What happened

According to an Auschwitz telex (transport of 690 including 25 "Schutzhäftlinge", received 7 March), 153 men, the 25 "Schutzhäftlinge" and 65 women were sent to forced labour, and 30 men and 417 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 662 on the Gestapo list (657 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 665/721; Gleis 17 plate 662; Yad Vashem 665. Also on the train were 25 Jewish partners of "mixed marriages" arrested in the "Fabrikaktion" (as "Schutzhäftlinge", not on the list); most were brought back from Auschwitz to the Großbeeren labour camp near Berlin on 21 March 1943 (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.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 35. Osttransport Departure 06.03.1943; 662 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092744 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 9 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) 06.03.1943, Berlin, 665/721, arrival 7 March 1943, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 35, Moabit, 665 (721)
  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: 6.3.1943 / 662 / Berlin-Auschwitz