Transport 29 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 19/02/1943

This transport was the 29th to leave Berlin for the ghettos and killing sites in Eastern Europe and was thus designated “Osttransport 29”. It departed from the city’s Putlitzstrasse Station in the Moabit district on February 19, 1943 and arrived in Auschwitz one day later. There were 997 Jews on this transport including 21 Jews from Hamburg who had been brought to Berlin on February 12. In addition there were eight Austrian and German Jews who had previously emigrated to Finland, but had been expelled and returned to Germany via Estonia. 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....