Transport 27, Train Da 13 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 29/01/1943

This transport was the 27th to leave Berlin for the ghettos and killing sites in Eastern Europe and was thus designated “Osttransport 27”. It departed from the city’s Putlitzstrasse Station in the Moabit district at 17:20 on January 29, 1943 and arrived at Auschwitz the following day at 10:48.
There were 1,004 Jews on this transport, among them an unknown number of elderly and weak Jews who were brought to Berlin from Cologne, apparently in two transports on January 15 and January 21. 67 of them were part of this transport. Another 17 were brought from Berlin to Theresienstadt on the same day on transport I/179 which comprised of 100 people.
The Jews were kept in assembly camps spread throughout Berlin for some days prior to deportation. At these assembly sites the Jews were forced to sign a declaration authorizing the transfer of their property to the State....