Transport 39 from Berlin, Berlin (Berlin), City of Berlin, Germany to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 28/06/1943

This transport, the 39th to leave Berlin to the ghettos and killing sites in Eastern Europe (and thus designated Osttransport 39), departed on 28 June 1943, and arrived in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on the following day. It included between 314 and 346 deportees, including 4 people from Trier, 2 people from Ettelbrück in Luxemburg, 2 people from Potsdam, a person from Rostock and a person from Amsterdam. It might have additionally included 18 people deported from Leipzig to Berlin at an earlier date. The deportees included in the late transports from Berlin to Auschwitz were often Jewish spouses in so-called “mixed marriages” that were suspected of violating the anti-Jewish regulations. Another group of deportees was Jews who lived illegally in hiding and were caught, often due to a denunciation of German civilians or Jewish collaborators. Occasionally, Jewish prisoners were transferred from civilian prisons and put on a transport, as was the case of the two of the deportees on this transports who were taken out of the Zuchthaus Brandenburg prison. Prior to their deportation, the deportees were held at the Gestapo interment facility at Iranische Strasse or at Grosse Hamburger-Strasse. There is little available information on this transport. Presumably, the deportees were ordered into closed freight cars of a special deportation train ordered from the Reichsbahn. The train went to Auschwitz via Breslau (Wroclaw) and Kattowitz (Katowice)....