Monument Raildroad Pole 108,9

On 10 April 1945, a final train transport of Jewish prisoners left Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In fourteen days the train traveled first in the direction of Hamburg and then straight through devastated Berlin to finally strand near the village of Tröbitz. Along the way and in the first weeks after arrival, of the 2,500 occupants, about 500 would die, many due to typhus.

One day after the capture of Tröbitz by the Red Army on 23 April1945, the train, which contained only those evacuees who were unable to walk due to weakness and illness, was moved to mile marker 108.9, near Camp Nordfeld, a former labor camp for Soviet prisoners where the Red Army had set up a primitive hospital for the Jewish evacuees.

The train was stationary at the spot where in photo 5 the red train is riding. A memorial stone was placed at the site of the mile marker in memory of the victims on the train.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman
• PRENGER, K., Meer dan alleen Auschwitz, Just Publishers, 2021.