Berlin Deportations1941–1945

19.04.1943688 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz

37. Osttransport

What happened

On arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 299 men and 158 women were registered for forced labour; according to Yad Vashem (after Danuta Czech) the remaining 543 people on the train were murdered in the gas chambers.

About Auschwitz (Oświęcim)

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 688 on the Gestapo list (327 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 681; Gleis 17 plate 688; Yad Vashem 681. Besides 327 people with a Berlin address, the train carried many Jews from labour camps in the Frankfurt/Oder district, including 153 from the Neuendorf training farm, and Jews from East Prussia and Amsterdam (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer, as cited by Yad Vashem. Arrival on 20 April is given as probable by Gottwaldt/Schulle and Yad Vashem. Station: Yad Vashem (Putlitzstraße station, Moabit), berlin.de and Gleis 69 give Moabit.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 37. Osttransport Departure 19.04.1943; 688 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092746 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) 19.04.1943, Berlin, 681, arrival "20. April 1943?", Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 37, Moabit, 681, arrival "20.04.1943 (?)"
  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: 19.4.1943 / 688 / Berlin-Auschwitz