Transport 36 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 12/03/1943

This transport was the 36th to leave Berlin for the ghettos and killing sites in Eastern Europe and was thus designated “Osttransport 36”. It departed from the city’s Putlitzstrasse Station in the Moabit district on March 12, 1943 and arrived in Auschwitz the following day.

There were 941 Jews on this transport. On the day of their deportation they were ordered into a train consisting of closed cattle cars. A guard unit, usually composed of two SS men, was usually posted in the control compartment. The train usually went to Auschwitz via Breslau (Wroclaw) and Kattowitz (Katowice), but the constant strain put on the German railway system might have caused individual transports to take other routes....