Archival tree of the Arolsen Archives

0 - Global Finding Aids

1 - Incarceration Documents

1.1 - Camps and Ghettos

1.2 - Miscellaneous

1.2.1 - Deportations and Transports

1.2.1.1 - Deportations

20840

1.2.1.2 - AJDC Berlin Card File (Deportations)

44627

1.2.1.3 - Reference Lists of Transports

527

1.2.1.4 - Card File of Berlin Transports to the East (Osttransporte) Waves 1-7

5040

1.2.1.5 - Registration and Persecution

15616

1.2.2 - Prisons

1.2.3 - Gestapo

1.2.4 - Various Organizations

1.2.5 - Post-war Compilations

1.2.6 - Archival References

1.2.7 - Persecution actions especially outside of the German Reich

1.2.8 - Court martial proceedings

1.2.9 - Effects preserved at the ITS

2 - Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939 - 1947)

3 - Registrations and Files of Displaced Persons, Children and Missing Persons

4 - Special NSDAP organizations and actions

5 - Death Marches, identification of unkown dead and Nazi trials

6 - Records of the ITS and its predecessors

7 - Archival records of microforms (new material / document acquisition)

8 - Collections of private persons and small archives

1 Incarceration Documents / 1.2 Miscellaneous / 1.2.1 Deportations and Transports /

Card File of Berlin Transports to the East (Osttransporte) Waves 1-7

Reference Code

DE ITS 1.2.1.4

Number of documents

5040

Scope and content

Contains:
The file contains details of the Jewish citizens of Berlin who were deported to Lodz, Minsk, Kowno or Riga in the first seven large consolidated transports in October and November 1941 by the “Staatspolizeileitstelle” (Berlin State Police Headquarters). In addition to personal details, the cards contain information on the last place of residence and family members, as well as processing notes and file numbers.

Documented are the following deportations:
I) Wave 1 – 1st Ostttransport to Lodz on 10/18/1941
II) Wave 2 – 2nd Osttransport to Lodz on 10/24/1941
III) Wave 3 – 3rd Osttransport to Lodz on 10/29/1941
IV) Wave 4 – 4th Osttransport to Lodz on 11/01/1941
V) Wave 5 – 5th Osttransport to Minsk on 11/14/1941
VI) Wave 6 – 6th Osttransport to Kowno on 11/17/1941
VII) Wave 7 – 7th Osttransport to Riga on 11/27/1941

Note on the 3rd Osttransport to Lodz on October 29, 1941: The date October 27 indicated as the departure date is unlikely. It is possible that two days elapsed between the registration process in the transit camp and the departure of the train at Grunewald station.

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