A transport list to the Columbiadamm concentration camp

This "Begleitbeleg" (accompanying receipt) documents a prisoner transport of three people known to be gender nonconforming. They were transferred from the Gestapo prison at Albrechtstrasse 8 to the Columbia concentration camp in Berlin, the latter known for its obnoxious conditions of detention. On the back of the receipt, in addition to _Müller and _Breitling, flower street seller _Grewe is in second place. On January 26th 1935, _Grewe was arrested in clothing with feminine connotations during a raid on Berlin's Motzstrasse aimed at queer people.

_Grewe had already been registered with the police as a "transvestite" and "Strichjunge" (contemporary term for usually underage male sex workers). Following the arrest, _Grewe was imprisoned until July 29, in the Lichtenburg concentration camp, where many queer people were detained.

During Nazi rule, raids on queer pubs, bars and other queer scene locations were increasingly conducted. Queer people were arrested and interrogated. At Albrechtstrasse 8., according to eyewitness reports from 1935, they were abused and harassed by the SS. These arrests often led to "Schutzhaft" (protective imprisonment). Because gender nonconforming people were often perceived as more visible, they were particularly at risk of arrest during such raids.