Dominikanerstrasse 23
Kurt Reichenbach
The original transport list records Kurt at Dominikanerstrasse 23. A parallel list preserved by Yad Vashem records the same address on frame 2.
One documented day
12 April 1942
On 12 April 1942 Kurt Reichenbach, Paula Wollenberg and her son Hans were taken from Halberstadt. On 16 April the train was recorded in Warsaw. After that date the archive contains no further named record of any of the three.
Rights-held photograph
The photograph exists, but this site does not yet have reuse permission.
#LastSeen publishes the Halberstadt image: people with luggage near Domplatz, the cathedral behind them.
This site links to the source while reuse permission is pending. The published notes identify several people in the scene, but not Kurt, Paula or Hans.
Open the #LastSeen photographImage held at source
Halberstadt, 12 April 1942
Linked, not republishedMorning in the records
Two forced addresses, three names
Westendorf 15
Paula Wollenberg née Reichenbach and Hans Wollenberg
Paula was registered at Westendorf 15, the former Jewish school and community building converted after 1938 into forced collective housing for Jews.
Hans appears there with his mother. The transport evidence corrects his birth date to 3 June 1907 and gives Eisenach as his birthplace.
Documented route
The documented route ends in Warsaw.
Four days. Four places. Then the named trail ends. The sources give the administrative chain, not every rail mile.
- 1
12 Apr 1942
Halberstadt
102 Jews from Halberstadt were ordered to report at the registration office on Domplatz.
- 2
13 Apr 1942
Magdeburg
They were taken to a collection camp with other deportees from the Magdeburg district.
- 3
14 Apr 1942
Berlin
The train was coupled with transports from Berlin, Potsdam and the surrounding region.
Whether the train was coupled at Moabit or at Grunewald is not settled in the surviving sources.
- 4
16 Apr 1942
Warsaw
Czerniakow recorded the arrival of a train with newcomers from Germany at 6 in the morning.
Arrival evidence
The arrival is recorded once.
16 April 1942
“At 6 the train with newcomers from Germany arrived.”
Adam Czerniakow, Warsaw Judenrat diary
The transport reconstruction cites this line for the day the Magdeburg-Halberstadt transport reached Warsaw. It is the nearest witness note to the arrival itself.
Read the sourceThe city named on the list
The paper trail ends in Warsaw.
The Halberstadt transport arrived there on 16 April 1942. This public-domain photograph from the Warsaw Umschlagplatz gives the route a visual anchor: railway cars, luggage, and people being forced into transit.
It is not the Halberstadt train. It does not show the Reichenbach relatives. It shows the kind of place the record points toward.
Warsaw context, later months
None of these voices identify Kurt, Paula or Hans. They describe the city into which the transport delivered them.
These voices describe conditions in the Warsaw ghetto in the months after the transport arrived. They do not name Kurt, Paula or Hans.
Warsaw ghetto, remembered later
“We still think sometimes...sometime will get better.”
Abraham Lewent oral history, USHMM
Lewent remembered makeshift schools, libraries and the hunger for news inside the ghetto. His words give Warsaw a human interior without claiming that he saw the Halberstadt group.
Read the sourceSummer 1942
“the truth was that they were being taken to Treblinka”
Vladka Meed oral history, USHMM
Meed described trying to reach her mother and brother at the Umschlagplatz. She also remembered the false promise of bread and marmalade before people were forced onto trains.
Read the sourceSummer 1942
“This is the last time I saw them.”
Abraham Lewent oral history, USHMM
Lewent recalled hiding above a room while his mother and three sisters were taken away. It belongs here as a first-person account of deportation around Warsaw, not as a Reichenbach scene.
Read the sourceMemorial
The Domplatz memorial returns Kurt’s name to the city. It does not complete the record.
Kurt’s name is carved on Halberstadt’s Domplatz memorial. The stone names him without supplying an ending the evidence cannot support.
Paula and Hans remain in the public record through transport evidence, memorial-book entries and family-business context. The archive preserves the unresolved fates as unresolved.
Source boundary
What this page uses
The page uses facts already represented in the public archive and links out to institutional records. It does not add restricted images or unresolved visual permissions.
- #LastSeen: Halberstadt deportation photograph, 12 April 1942
- Original transport list and reconstruction
- USHMM oral history: Vladka Meed on the Umschlagplatz
- USHMM oral history: Abraham Lewent on hiding during a deportation raid
- USHMM oral history: Abraham Lewent on conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
- Yad Vashem item 6719646
- Berend Lehmann Museum: Westendorf 15