Transport 22 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Riga, Rigas, Vidzeme, Latvia on 26/10/1942

On October 26 all deportees were taken from the assembly camp to a freight station located on Putlitzstrasse/Quitzowstrasse in Berlin-Moabit. This usually happened in the early hours of the morning. The deportees were forced to walk about three kilometres to the station via Jagowstrasse, Alt-Moabit, Turmstrasse, Perleberger Strasse, Havelberger Strasse and Quitzowstrasse. Those unable to walk were taken there by truck. At the station third-class passenger cars ordered by the Gestapo and supplied by the Reichsbahn awaited them and the deportees were ordered to board the train. This transport departed on the same day. It was the 22nd out of over 60 transports to the East (Osttransporte) which together took more than 35,000 Jews from Berlin to ghettos and extermination sites in Eastern Europe. It consisted of up to 798 men, women and children from Berlin, but there was also one person from Cottbus and one from Neustadt/Dosse on board. There were at least 204 employees of the Jewish community of Berlin on this transport which is also known as the “Gemeindeaktion” (community action). The average age of the deportees was 43. with 88 children under the age of 15. Inmates from the police prison at Alexanderplatz were also aboard in a separate compartment. During the journey the Jews were guarded by a guard detail from the Schupo police. Their destination was not disclosed and after three days in overcrowded cars, they arrived at Skirotava station on the outskirts of Riga on October 29. All deportees were shot in the Rumbula and Bikernieki forests shortly after their arrival....