Berlin Deportations1941–1945

05.01.194520 peopleBerlin to Sachsenhausen

61. Osttransport

What happened

According to testimonies and International Tracing Service records cited by Yad Vashem, men were taken to Sachsenhausen, women to Ravensbrück, and three women with their children to Bergen-Belsen.

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 across three camps (Yad Vashem: three separate Gestapo lists); statistik-des-holocaust.de "Ravensbrück/Sachsenhausen/Bergen-Belsen"; Gleis 17 "Bergen-Belsen/Sachsenhausen"; Gottwaldt/Schulle (Bundesarchiv) "Sachsenhausen". Recorded under Sachsenhausen, the destination common to all sources. Count: statistik-des-holocaust.de 20 (all with a Berlin address), Gleis 17 20, Yad Vashem 21, Bundesarchiv chronology 18, berlin.de 30. Survivors: Rita Meyhöfer gives 2, but Yad Vashem notes that the testimonies collected for the Bovensiepen trial indicate at least 8; the minimum of 8 is recorded. Station not stated.

  1. Statistik des Holocaust – 40.–63. Osttransport Departure 05.01.45; 20 deported; Ravensbrück/Sachsenhausen/Bergen-Belsen
  2. Yad Vashem, “Transports to Extinction” deportation database, item 5092824 Three lists; Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen; 21 deportees; Meyhöfer 2 survivors, testimonies at least 8
  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) 5 Jan 1945, 18, Sachsenhausen
  4. Bezirksamt Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (berlin.de): Liste der Deportationszüge aus Berlin von 1941 bis 1945 (compiled after Gottwaldt/Schulle 2005) No. 61, 05.01.1945, 30, Sachsenhausen
  5. Mahnmal Gleis 17, Bahnhof Grunewald (Deutsche Bahn, 1998) – plate inscriptions (date, number, destination) as transcribed by Gedenktafeln in Berlin Plate: 5.1.1945 / 20 / B.-Bergen-Belsen Sachsenhsn.