17.05.1943395 peopleGüterbahnhof Moabit to Auschwitz
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.
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.
Sources
Notes on the sources
Count: statistik-des-holocaust.de 395 on the Gestapo list (385 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 406; Gleis 17 plate 395; Yad Vashem 406. Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer, as cited by Yad Vashem. Station: Yad Vashem (Putlitzstraße station, Moabit) and Gleis 69 give Moabit; berlin.de gives no station.
- Statistik des Holocaust – 38. Osttransport Departure 17.05.1943; 395 deported
- Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092747 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 5 known survivor(s)
- 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) 17.05.1943, Berlin, 406, arrival 19 May 1943, Auschwitz
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 38, 406, arrival 19.05.1943 (no station given)
- Gleis 69 e.V.: Der Deportationsbahnhof (list of transports that left from Güterbahnhof Moabit) Listed among the trains from Güterbahnhof Moabit
- Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 17.5.1943 / 395 / Berlin-Auschwitz