24.08.194350 peopleBerlin to Auschwitz
What happened
At Auschwitz-Birkenau no fewer than 19 deportees were murdered in the gas chambers; the others were sent to forced labour, which few survived (Yad Vashem).
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 50 on the Gestapo list (47 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 46; Gleis 17 plate 50; Yad Vashem "between 46 and 50". Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer, as cited by Yad Vashem. Station: not stated. From August 1943 Yad Vashem describes these small transports as one or two closed freight cars presumably attached to a regular train; survivor Fritz Pagel (transport 40) remembered being taken to a station that was "possibly Jungfernheide".
- Statistik des Holocaust – 40.–63. Osttransport Departure 24.08.1943; 50 deported
- Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092751 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 3 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) 24.08.1943, Berlin, 46, arrival 25 Aug 1943, Auschwitz
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 41, 46, arrival 25.08.1943
- Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 24.8.1943 / 50 / Berlin-Auschwitz