Transport from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Warsaw, Ghetto, Poland on 14/04/1942

This transport left for the already overcrowded Warsaw ghetto. It was part of a larger transport with Jews from Magdeburg and Potsdam, which consisted of up to 1,000 men, women and children. Although the name list for this transport is now unavailable, it is assumed that there were 425 Jews from Potsdam on board, this being the second deportation from the city. In addition, there were at least 24 children and four teachers of the “Israelitische Erziehungsanstalt für geistig zurückgebliebene Kinder” (Israelite education institution for mentally retarded children) from Beelitz, a town 22 kilometres south of Potsdam. The deportee list contains only 70 names of the Jews from Berlin. We know that on April 12 or 13 a deportation train left Brandenburg/Havel and on April 11 a train with Jews set out from Braunschweig. It is highly likely that those deportees were connected to this transport leaving from Berlin. The department for Jewish Affairs at the Berlin Gestapo, headed by SS-Untersturmführer Gerhard Stübs and his deputy Kriminaloberinspektor Franz Prüfer was put in charge of organizing the transports together with the Department of Jewish Affairs in the RSHA (IVD1). The task of compiling lists of deportees was given to the representatives of the Jewish community of Berlin. The Jewish community was also required to take care of the deportees’ basic food supplies and essentials for the journey....