Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: List of Berlin Jews, whose property was confiscated, prepared by the Berlin Gestapo, 1941 - 1944
The list contains following names:
Bertha Abraham (maiden name: Aschheim; date of birth: 24.11.68 in Berlin)
Clara Bauer (maiden name: Kalisek; date of birth: 26.05.65 in Knewen)
Siegmund Flaumenhaft (date of birth: 21.03.79 in Lubliczko)
Georg Jacoby (date of birth: 30.12.95 in Berlin)
Max Holzheim (date of birth: 22.10.69 in Krone)
Felix Abraham (date of birth: 31.03.72 in Berlin)
Recha Markus (date of birth: 13.02.83 in...
Since the opening of Mechelen camp call-up letters had been distributed among non-Belgian Jews residing in Belgium for labour service in Germany. Jews with Belgian citizenship, as well as Jews in mixed marriages were still exempt from deportation. In the letters, which were distributed by the AJB, each person was ordered to report at the Dossin casern and had to bring provisions for 14 days, clothing and important documents such as identity papers and ration coupons. Thus far the German authorities were not satisfied with the number of people who had reported at Mechelen in response to the call-up letters. As a...
The first of four transports from Darmstadt to Theresienstadt departed on September 27, 1942 and arrived in Theresienstadt one day later.
There were 1,288 Jews from 76 places on the transport, including 12 from Alzey, 79 from Bad Nauheim, 68 from Bingen, 177 from Darmstadt, 21 from Friedberg, 54 from Giessen, 462 from Mainz, 98 from Offenbach, 13 from Seligenstadt, and 92 from Worms. The youngest deportee was 2 and the oldest was 95 years old, though the majority was comprised of elderly Jews.
Apart from the Gauleiter (district leader) of Hesse-Nassau, Jakob Sprenger, there were other key figures...
The first transport departed on Tuesday August 18, 1942, on Train Da 503. There were 1,009-1,013 Jews in this transport, including 678 residents of Jewish old-age homes in Frankfurt. The welfare department of the Jewish community financed many of the town’s old-age homes and its activity was under the constant inspection and surveillance of Ernst Holland, the official in charge of the Welfare Department of the Frankfurt Jewish community, who operated on behalf of both the Gestapo and the municipality. He was the most influential person in applying the anti-Jewish policy in Frankfurt am Main. With the...
The third Alterstransport (transport of elderly Jews) from Frankfurt am Main set out on September 15, 1942 on a train marked Da 515, and reached the Theresienstadt ghetto the next day, September 16. There were 1,369-1,378 Jews on the transport, including 42 orphans aged 1–14 from the orphanage on 24 Hans-Thoma Straße who were escorted by six adults. The Gestapo chose the old-age home at 18–20 Rechneigrabenstraße as the deportees’ collection point. The Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of the Jews in Germany) was charged with meeting their basic needs, moving their luggage to the...
On the morning of May 13, 1944, the inmates chosen for this transport received written notice ordering them to report to the assembly site, the “Schleuse” located at the Hamburg Barracks, the next day. They were allowed to bring with them up to 50kg of luggage. The inmates, who had received identification numbers upon their deportation to Theresienstadt, were now given new ones. After they were counted, they were taken to the Theresienstadt train platform, where they were loaded onto the waiting train.
This transport, designated “Ea”, left Theresienstadt on May 16, 1944, and was the second of three...
In his statement on February 22 1963 Franz Zimmermann, former head of the department II E 3 (foreign workers) in the Münster Gestapo office claimed that shortly before the start of the transports to Theresienstadt, a coordination meeting was held under the direction of Oberregierungsrat Dr. Kreuz. The main speaker was Dr. Bast, the deputy head of the Gestapo in the city and one of the main people involved in organizing the first deportations departing Münster from the winter of 1941.
The transport marked as Da77 left on July 31, 1942, at about midnight from the Münster train station to Bielefeld probably...