15. Lübeck-Kücknitz Terminus Station
On Wednesday 8th September 1947, the first Exodus passengers, travelling in locked railway
carriages with grilled windows, arrived in Lübeck-Kücknitz terminus station. The journey was heavily
guarded by British soldiers and German police. Terrorist attacks by Jewish extremists were feared.
The station approach roads were closed off. The platform was sealed off with barbed-wire and fencing
denying entry to unauthorized persons and preventing observation. The holocaust survivors left the
railway carriages quickly and without incident.
British heavy lorries shuttled the Jews to P÷ppendorf internment camp, 800 metre away in the
Walhusener Forest, and to the Am Stau internment camp on the Herreninsel. Each lorry was escorted
by two soldiers with machine-guns. The sick, expectant mothers, and the infirm were taken in ambulances.
The passengers from the Empire Rival and Runnymede Park arrived in Lübeck-Kücknitz station on the
following day so that in the evening of 9th September, 4,319 Exodus passengers were in the two camps.
9th September, Lübeck-Kücknitz.
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
Guarded by British soldiers the refugees walk to the heavy lorries that will take them to the Pöppendorf and Am Stau camps.
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
(Archiv Ursula Litzmann, Düren).
German Text: Henrik Jan Fahlbusch, Sarah Haake, Felix Hurlin, Paul Kononow and Lars Krobitsch.
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