Transport 38 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 17/05/1943

This transport was the 38th to leave Berlin for the ghettos and killing sites in Eastern Europe and was thus designated “Osttransport 38”. It departed the city’s Putlitzstrasse Station in the Moabit district on May 17, 1943 and arrived in Auschwitz two days later.

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....