Berlin Deportations1941–1945

08.12.194415 peopleBerlin to Sachsenhausen

60. Osttransport

What happened

Men were taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and women to Ravensbrück, according to survivors' affidavits and camp records cited by Yad Vashem.

About Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg)

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

Destination split: Yad Vashem (men to Sachsenhausen, women to Ravensbrück); statistik-des-holocaust.de and Gleis 17 "Ravensbrück/Sachsenhausen"; Gottwaldt/Schulle (Bundesarchiv, berlin.de) "Sachsenhausen". Count: 15 in all sources. Arrival date as given by Yad Vashem. Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer (via Yad Vashem) 2. Station not stated.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 40.–63. Osttransport Departure 08.12.44; 15 deported; Ravensbrück/Sachsenhausen
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092823 Separate lists of men and women; Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück; Meyhöfer: 2 survivors
  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) 8 Dec 1944, 15, Sachsenhausen
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 60, 15, Sachsenhausen
  5. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 8.12.1944 / 15 / Berlin-Ravensbr./Sachsenhsn.