12.07.194430 peopleBerlin to Auschwitz
What happened
The deportees, often Jews caught in hiding or partners of "mixed marriages" accused of breaking anti-Jewish regulations, were separated at Auschwitz-Birkenau; most were murdered in the gas chambers and the others sent to forced labour (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 30 on the Gestapo list (26 with a Berlin address); Gottwaldt/Schulle 31; Gleis 17 plate 30; Yad Vashem "between 30 and 31". 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 12.07.1944; 30 deported
- Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092817 Departure, arrival and fate; Meyhöfer: 4 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) 12.07.1944, Berlin, 31, arrival 13 July 1944, Auschwitz
- Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 55, 31, arrival 13.07.1944
- Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 12.7.1944 / 30 / Berlin-Auschwitz