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Dina Czapnik’s story about the way “she was deported from Minsk
to Sobibór in mid-September 1943 and then moved to Trawniki with
about 225 specialists” 954 is likewise in disagreement with the thesis of
nearly total extermination of the deportees taken to Sobibór and lends
credit to the hypothesis that the Polish Jews selected for work were far
more numerous than mainstream historiography asserts.
9.4. Evacuations to the East: Höfle Telegram and
Korherr Report
In 2001 Peter Witte and Stephen Tyas published the text of a German
radio message dated 11 January 1943, which had been decoded by
the British during the war. 955 It is a telegram by SS-Hauptsturmführer
Hermann Höfle addressed to SS-Obersturmbannführer Heim, chief of
security police at Cracow, and to SS-Obersturmbannführer Eichmann
of RSHA on the subject of “arrivals” of Jews in the camps of Einsatz
Reinhardt up to 31 December 1942. The figures are as follows:
Lublin: 24,733
Beec: 434,508
Sobibór: 101,370
Treblinka: 713,555 (indicated by mistake to be 71355)
Total: 1,274,166
The report also mentions a “fortnightly report Einsatz Reinhardt” for
the period of 18-31 December 1942 which show the following deportations:
Lublin: 12,761
Beec: 0
Sobibór: 515
Treblinka: 10,335
Total: 23,611.
The authors state that the total figure of the Höfle report is identical
to the one which appears under item 4, section V (“The Evacuation of
Jews”) of the Korherr report of 28 April 1943, which we present here in
the general context of the evacuations: 956
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Ibid., p. 148.
P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), pp. 469f.
NO-5194, pp. 9f.