Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover
»A New Epoch for Jews in Germany«
11.12.2016 – 07.01.2017
Overview: Deportations from Hannover
»Deported to their Deaths« – panel 11 – Deportation and Death
The deportation of 1001 Jewish women and men to the Riga ghetto on December 15th, 1941, was the first and most extensive deportation from Hannover. However, “Riga” was neither the beginning nor the end of the deportations.
Prior to the deportations to the East in 1941
| Date | Destination | Number of Deportees | |
| 28.10.1938 | Polish border | 484 | Expulsion of Hannover Jews of Polish nationality, amongst them the von Herschel Grünspan family. |
| 10.11.1938 | Concentration Camp Buchenwald | 181 | So-called "Operation Jews" (German: Aktionsjuden) who were arrested after Crystal Night. |
| 25.06.1939 | Concentration Camp Buchenwald | unbekannt | "Operation Jews" |
| 27.09.1940 | Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre | 158 | Mentally and physically disabled people of Jewish decent from all of Nothern Germany, concentrated in Wunstorf, amongst them Hand Rosenbaum |
| 2.353 |
After “Riga”, seven more “transports” originated from Hannover before the end of the war. They were significantly smaller and primarily included the Jewish population from the extended region.
| Date | Destination | Number of Deportees | |
| 15.12.1941 | Riga | 1001 | |
| 31.03.1942 | Warsaw / Trawniki | 488 | including 63 people from the City of Hannover |
| 23.07.1942 | Theresienstadt | 548 | including 381 people from the City of Hannover |
| 02.03.1943 | Auschwitz | 38 | Orphaned children from the director's house of the Horticultural School Ahlem and their adult guardians; all were murdered. |
| 16.03.1943 | Theresienstadt | 32 | |
| 30.06.1943 | Theresienstadt | 9 | |
| 11.01.1944 | Theresienstadt | 17 | |
| 20.02.1945 | Theresienstadt | 220 | Jews from "mixed marriages", including 64 people from Hannover. They belonged to the 300 survivors of the ghetto. Collection point: Gestapo Office Hildesheimer Straße (building of the municipal library), transport from the freight station Möhringsberg. |
| 2.353 |
Deportation of Jews from Hannover and surrounding regions and their initial destinations. Numbers based on: Buch der Erinnerung (2003); deviations from numbers in the literature have not been taken into consideration.
In March 1943, Sinti and Roma were deported from the Fischerhof Station. The Nazis deported more than 31,000 Jewish women and men from the territory of the German Reich to the Baltic. Approximately 1100 of the deportees survived. 69 people from the deportation train Hannover-Riga experienced the liberation from National Socialism.
Details
| Exhibition: | Deported to their Deaths |
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| Duration: | December 15th, 2011 to January 27th, 2012 |
| Location: | Neues Rathaus Hannover, Bürgersaal |
| Panel: | 11 from 39 – Deportation and Death |
| Size: | 650 x 2050 mm |
| Technique: | Digital print on Alu-Dibond |
