Wiesbaden Deportations

Deportation of the Jews of Wiesbaden, Germany in 1942

In March, May and June 1942, 500 Jewish Men, Women and Children from Wiesbaden were deported to Camps in the East, among them the Rabbis Finkelscherer and Hanff.

 On June 11th, the Jews were led through the streets of the City to the station in Groups.

371 Jews from Wiesbaden and 264 Jews from the District of Wiesbaden were brought to Frankfurt by a Passenger Train.

From there, together with 618 Jews from the Frankfurt Area were deported to the Lublin District in German-Occupied Poland where 188 were deported to the Majdanek Death Camp and the remaining 1,065 were sent to Izbicia two days later to be murdered in the Sobibor Death Camp.

It is not known if a single Person survived Deportation.