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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 305<br />

Between 17 March 1942, the day the Beec camp was opened, 923<br />

and 2 May the Lublin district received 29 transports with 26,927 Jews,<br />

none <strong>of</strong> which went to this alleged extermination camp.<br />

In the period between 3 May, the day Sobibór was opened, 924 and 15<br />

July out <strong>of</strong> the 41 transports with 40,153 Jews on board which reached<br />

the Lublin district only 12 went to Sobibór, carrying 12,021 persons,<br />

and none went to Beec.<br />

In summarizing we determine that a mere 12 <strong>of</strong> the total <strong>of</strong> 70 transports<br />

which reached the Lublin district went into the alleged extermination<br />

camps, with a load <strong>of</strong> 12,021 persons out <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> 69,084 passengers<br />

altogether.<br />

One <strong>of</strong> the 12 transports going to Sobibór, the one which had left<br />

Vienna on 14 June 1942, was originally not supposed to go there at all,<br />

but to Izbica, as we know from Transportführer Josef Frischmann.<br />

When the train left Vienna, SS-Hauptscharführer Girzig <strong>of</strong> the Central<br />

Agency for Jewish Emigration was present. After a lay-over at Lublin<br />

where SS-Obersturmführer Pohl removed “51 able-bodied Jews between<br />

15 and 50 years <strong>of</strong> age” and ordered “the remainder <strong>of</strong> 949 Jews<br />

to be taken to the labor camp at Sobibór,” the train went into “the labor<br />

camp next to the station.” 925<br />

Furthermore, the first <strong>of</strong> the 12 transports (the one with 1,000 Jews<br />

on board which reached Sobibór-Osawa 926 on 9 May 1942, coming<br />

from Theresienstadt) can obviously not have been gassed in its entirety,<br />

as mainstream historiography will have it: at least 101 Jews from this<br />

convoy died at Majdanek, and the personal data are known for 90 persons<br />

from this latter group, 927 which means that hundreds <strong>of</strong> these Jews<br />

– if not the entire transport – were moved to this camp.<br />

But not even those Jews who had initially been deported into the<br />

various communities <strong>of</strong> the district <strong>of</strong> Lublin were later “gassed” in the<br />

alleged extermination camps at Beec and Sobibór. Miroslaw Kryl<br />

found that at least 858 Jews who had been moved to the Lublin district<br />

from the Theresienstadt ghetto and from Prague died at the Majdanek<br />

923<br />

924<br />

925<br />

926<br />

927<br />

Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 68<br />

J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 49.<br />

Ibid., pp. 70-71, facsimile <strong>of</strong> “Bericht des Transportführers J. Frischmann,” dated “Wien,<br />

20. Juni 1942.”<br />

Osowa is a small community located a few kilometers to the southwest <strong>of</strong> Sobibór.<br />

Cf. the list in: C. Mattogno, op. cit. (note 11, Engl. ed.), pp. 112-114.

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