Berlin Deportations1941–1945

17.03.19431,159 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Theresienstadt

I/90

What happened

The holocaust.cz database counts 1065 victims and 221 survivors among the 1286 people it records on this transport. Individual victim records show onward deportation from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz (652).

About Theresienstadt (Terezín)

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

Berlin designation in the deportation lists: "4. großer Alterstransport" (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Theresienstadt registration number I/90. Deportee counts differ: Gedenkbuch 1342/1285; statistik-des-holocaust.de 1342; holocaust.cz transport list 1342; holocaust.cz victim-database records 1286; Yad Vashem 1342. Recorded here: 1342. Survivors: holocaust.cz: 221 survivors among 1286 recorded deportees; Rita Meyhöfer (cited by Yad Vashem): 170 known survivors. The 1342 registered in Theresienstadt include about 224 Jews from outside Berlin (e.g. Leipzig, Braunschweig, Hannover/Ahlem, Frankfurt am Main, East Prussia, Trier, West Prussia, Danzig); the Berlin Gestapo list names 1159 deportees including non-Berliners and 1118 Berliners (statistik-des-holocaust.de); Gottwaldt (cited by Yad Vashem) counts 1164 Jews from Berlin. The Gedenkbuch gives 1342/1285. Station: Gleis 69 (after Gottwaldt/Schulle) lists this transport as departing from Güterbahnhof Moabit; Yad Vashem says it "likely" left from Moabit/Putlitzstraße but that one testimony places it at Bahnhof Grunewald. The two survivor figures differ substantially; the holocaust.cz figure (based on individual records) is recorded. Editorial decision: this site counts the people on the Berlin Gestapo list (1159, matching the Gleis 17 plate "1160 Juden"), as for the "Osttransporte"; the 1342 registered in Theresienstadt include about 224 people from outside Berlin who joined the train. The survivor figures (holocaust.cz 221 of 1286 recorded; Meyhöfer 170) refer to the whole train and are therefore not shown as a Berlin figure.

  1. Bundesarchiv, Gedenkbuch: Chronologie der Deportationen aus dem Deutschen Reich (based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005 and the Theresienstädter Gedenkbuch 2000) Berlin -> Theresienstadt, departure 17. März 1943, arrival 18. März 1943, 1342/1285 persons.
  2. statistik-des-holocaust.de: Bezirksstelle Berlin, deportation overview (from Gestapo transport lists in the files of the Oberfinanzpräsident Berlin-Brandenburg, NARA A3355) Departure 17.3.43, Berlin designation "4. großer Alterstransport", Theresienstadt no. I/90, arrival 18.3.43, 1342 deportees (1118 from the Berlin district office).
  3. statistik-des-holocaust.de: transport list and commentary for this transport group Transport list reproduction, departure date and commentary.
  4. holocaust.cz (Terezín Initiative Institute): list of all transports to Terezín, by place of departure I/90, 18. 3. 1943, Berlín, 1342 persons.
  5. holocaust.cz database of victims: Transport I/90 (Berlin -> Terezín) Page dated 18.03.1943; deported: 1286, murdered: 1065, survived: 221.
  6. holocaust.cz database of victims: search by transport and place of imprisonment Search "Transport: I/90" combined with each place of imprisonment: Auschwitz 652 (queried October 2026).
  7. Yad Vashem, Transports to Extinction: Transport I/90 from Berlin to Theresienstadt Transport I/90, departure 17/03/1943, 1342 deportees; "According to historian Rita Meyhöfer, 170 deportees from this transport are known to have survived".
  8. Gedenkort Gleis 69 (Moabit): Der Deportationsbahnhof (list based on Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) Lists the 17.3.1943 transport to Theresienstadt among the transports that departed from Güterbahnhof Moabit.