Jewish Hospital Building, Iranische Strasse, 2-4, Berlin
Berlin-Moabit, Freight train station (Putlitz Street)
Freight Train
Auschwitz Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland
This transport was the 28th to leave Berlin for the ghettos and killing sites in Eastern Europe and was thus designated “Osttransport 28”. It departed from the city’s Putlitzstrasse Station in the Moabit district at 17:20 on February 3, 1943 and arrived at Auschwitz the following day at 10:48.
There were 952 Jews on this transport, among them patients from the Jewish hospitals located at Auguststrasse 17 and Iranische Strasse 2-4.
The department for Jewish Affairs at the Berlin Gestapo, headed by Walter Stock and his deputy Max Stark, was in charge of organising this transport together with the Department of Jewish Affairs at the RSHA....