Deportation by the "Reichsbahn"

The systematic deportation of Jews from Germany to the east began in the middle of October 1941. An important and inglorious role in this connection played the German Reichsbahn. Without the "Reichsbahn" it would have been impossible to send such a horrendous number of people to the concentration camps. The Jews who had remained in their hometown Burghaun until last had to board the train from Fulda to Kassel here at Burghaun station.

Deportation End of Mai 1942

from Burghaun station, first June 1942 from Kassel via Lublin / Majdanek to Sobibor, murdered there:

Adelheid Strauss and Jeanette Wohl

Deportation on 5th September 1942

from Burghaun station, continuation of the journey on 7th September from Kassel to Theresienstadt:

Feiber Stern with wife Jenny and their children Marga, Semmi and Max, 1944 murdered in Auschwitz, as well as Abraham Strauss with wife Adelheid and their children Marga and Manfred, 1943 murdered in Auschwitz.

Of the original Burghaun station there is hardly anything left today, except for the tracks. The old station building was torn down without replacement in 2000, and the platforms were rebuilt.

Deportation on 8th December 1941

Some Jews from Burghaun were taken to the train station in Huenfeld on a truck and had to travel from there through Burghaun station to Kassel on 8th December 1941.

On 9th December they were deported to the ghetto in Riga:

Fanny and Gusta Braunschweiger, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, Julius and Selma Braunschweiger, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, Abraham Levy, murdered in Salaspils in 1942 and his wife Jenny Levy, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, David Nussbaum, murdered in Salaspils in 1942, as well as his wife Jenny and daughter Friedel Nussbaum, murdered at concentration camp Stutthof in 1944 and 1945, Levi Stern, murdered in Auschwitz Monowitz in 1944 as well as his wife Ida and their three daughters Marianne, Irene and Alice, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.