Wave 16 – 16th Osttransport to Minsk / Maly Trostinez, 06/24/1942

Scope and content

Contains:

I) Handwritten certificate of the responsible clerk Eulert regarding the receipt of confiscated valuables, 07/06/1942.
II) Correspondence of the Stapoleitstelle Berlin with the Chief Finance President Berlin concerning the confiscation of assets of the deportees.
III) Transport list: 16th Osttransport to Minsk / Maly Trostinez (Wave 16), 06/24/1942.
The transport list was erroneously dated 06/26/1942. It is considered certain that the deportation train left Berlin's Grunewald station on 06/24/1942.

Among the deportees were more than 50 employees of the Reichsvereinigung, some of them senior managers. The destination was unknown for a long time. According to recent research, in Königsberg the Berlin transport was connected to a train from East Prussia to Minsk. After the arrival, the majority of the deportees was murdered in a forest near Maly Trostinez, about 12 km southeast of Minsk, by members of the Waffen-SS and the Schutzpolizei.
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