Transport 30 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 26/02/1943

This transport was the 30th to leave Berlin for the ghettos and killing sites in Eastern Europe and was thus designated “Osttransport 30”. It departed from the city’s Putlitzstrasse Station in the Moabit district on February 26, 1943 and arrived in Auschwitz one day later. There were 913 Jews on this transport. 100 had been brought from Leipzig to Berlin on February 17, 77 Jews from Magdeburg, 6 from Schönebeck, 1 from Hamburg, 3 from Cologne, and one from Copenhagen. 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....