Berlin Deportations1941–1945

28.06.1943317 peopleBerlin to Auschwitz

39. Osttransport

What happened

On arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, no fewer than 104 deportees were taken to the gas chambers and murdered; the others were sent to forced labour, which few survived (Yad Vashem).

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.

The transport list

1 further document for this transport: Related documents from other archives: publication needs the holding archive’s permission. We will show them once that permission has been given.

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Sources

Notes on the sources

Count: statistik-des-holocaust.de 317 on the Gestapo list; Gottwaldt/Schulle 314; Gleis 17 plate 319; Yad Vashem "between 314 and 346". At least 295 had a Berlin address; one page of the list is missing (statistik-des-holocaust.de). Left after the RSHA order of 21 May 1943 to deport the remaining Jews from the Reich by 30 June 1943. Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer, as cited by Yad Vashem. Station: not stated in the sources consulted.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 39. Osttransport Departure 28.06.1943; 317 deported
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092748 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 25 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) 28.06.1943, Berlin, 314, arrival 29 June 1943, Auschwitz
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 39, 314, arrival 29.06.1943
  5. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 28.6.1943 / 319 / Berlin-Auschwitz