Berlin Deportations1941–1945

From October 1941 to March 1945, 187 transports took 51,274 Jewish men, women and children from Berlin.

This is a place to remember them by name, and to follow where they were taken.

To TheresienstadtTo other ghettos, camps and killing sitesNumber not documentedEach plate is one transport, in order of departure, after the plates at Gleis 17, Grunewald. Height shows the number of people.

Every transport as a table

Gleis 17: the preserved track in winter
The preserved track of platform 17 at Bahnhof Grunewald between the memorial's steel-plate platform edge (left) and the old brick retaining wall, February 2021.

The deportations on a map

Follow each transport across Europe in the order it left Berlin.

The transports

187 transports: when each left, from which station, and what happened to the people on it.

The destinations

13 ghettos, camps and killing sites, and what was done there.

In Berlin

The stations, the assembly camps, and the memorials that stand there today.

Remembered by name

Search all names

Picture credits

  1. Gleis 17: the preserved track in winter. Photo: Michael F. H. Barth / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. Source, licence

  2. Gleis 17: the memorial platform. Photo: Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0. Source, licence

  3. Gatehouse and tracks of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (2019). Ingo Mehling / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source, licence

  4. Will Lammert's figure group, Große Hamburger Straße. Singlespeedfahrer (Wikimedia user) / Wikimedia Commons (CC0). Source, licence

  5. Leo Baeck, portrait published in "Ost und West" (1912). Ost und West, 1912 (via HathiTrust / Wikimedia Commons); photographer unknown. Source

  6. Dr. Cora Berliner, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, January 1920. Photo: A. Matzdorff, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 1920 (digitised by Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin). Source, licence

  7. Stolperstein for Paul Maximilian Eppstein, Ludwigkirchstraße 10a, Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source, licence

  8. Margot Friedländer at a reading, 2012. Photo: Scott-Hendryk Dillan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source, licence

  9. Stolperstein for Paula Fürst, Kaiserdamm 101, Berlin-Charlottenburg. Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source, licence

  10. Memorial plaque for Lilli Henoch, Fritz-Lesch-Straße 32, Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen. Photo: OTFW, Berlin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source, licence

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