A Reichsbahn employee worked as a train handler at Moabit goods station reports:
“The trains for the east departed from this site, from a disused siding. Between 1941 and 1942, people were taken in trucks with their belongings almost right up to the rail tracks. I saw them being herded into the carriages with rifle butts and blows. At times, the trains consisted of 30 to 40 carriages. Each carriage, as far as I remember, held 40 to 60 people.
After 1942, people were not always driven to the platform, but arrived here on foot. They often had to leave their suitcases and bundles behind. All of that stuff, once the train had left, was collected, stashed in trucks and taken away.”