Vom Altenheim zum Sammellager - Die Große Hamburger Straße 26, die Deportation der Berliner Juden und das Personal der Stapoleitstelle Berlin

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the history of the time-honoured Jewish Old People’s Home at the Grosse Hamburger Strasse 26 in Berlin, the deportation of its inhabitants in June 1942 and the transformation of the building into a collection centre during the Nazi deportations. Furthermore it discusses the history and the structure of the camp and the transports to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz prepared here. Finally it takes a look at the Gestapo staff working both in the camp and the Berlin Judenreferat of the local Gestapo office (Stapoleitstelle Berlin) and their (failed) prosecution after the end of the war.

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