שילוח מ - Sachsenhausen, מחנה, גרמניה ל - Auschwitz Birkenau, מחנה השמדה, פולין ב- 22/10/1942

On the evening of October 21, 1942, the SS of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp announced that, on the next day, all the Jewish inmates would not march out to work. At that time, the camp had a total of about 12,000 registered male inmates, some 500 of whom were Jews. The latter were housed in the Jewish blocks, 38 and 39, within the so-called Jewish Small Camp, isolated from the main camp.^[1] 

On October 22, the SS block leaders chasing all the Jews, including the sick inmates from the infirmary, to the roll call square, where the SS camp leader Albert Sauer inspected the assembled.^[2] It was raining, and the men had to stand for hours in the camp's main square, as they were being taken away, in groups of about fifty, to the camp's isolation block 58. They were dressed in the camp's summer clothes, and had wooden clogs on their feet. A group of eighteen young Jews suspected that they were going to be murdered at the camp's industrial yard 'Station Z', and decided to stand up against it.^[3] The resisters broke out of the isolation barrack and ran across the busy roll-call square toward the SS at the camp’s main gate. The camp SS did not open fire on them; instead, they proceeded with the deportation of the Jews to the Auschwitz camp system.^[4]

That same night, some 500 Jews were marched through the town of Oranienburg to the train station and loaded onto the waiting freight cars. According to Johann Hüttner (Nathan Hirschtritt), one of the resisters, the deportees did not know where they were headed....