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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 319<br />

The 35,810 972 Jews who were moved into the Lublin district were<br />

part <strong>of</strong> a group <strong>of</strong> 69,804 who had been moved there by means <strong>of</strong> 72<br />

transports between 11 March and 15 July 1942, 973 viz.:<br />

From Altreich, Ostmark, Protectorate (not counting<br />

the 6,615 Jews deported to Nisko): 29,195<br />

from Slovakia: 39,889<br />

Total: 69,084<br />

There is no doubt that at least part <strong>of</strong> these western Jews were later<br />

evacuated to the east. For example, the report by the county chief <strong>of</strong><br />

Lublin dated 5 October 1942 to the governor <strong>of</strong> the Lublin district,<br />

mentioned above, stated that out <strong>of</strong> the 8,009 Jews who had been resettled<br />

into the county territory, 3,692 had already been transferred elsewhere.<br />

But there is no doubt either that these transferred persons were<br />

counted twice in Korherr’s report. In fact, 23,500 Jews from the Altreich<br />

and from Ostmark who had been deported to the Lublin district 974<br />

were sent to Sobibór according to Schelvis.<br />

Out <strong>of</strong> the 57,752 Jews deported from Slovakia according to Vlasta<br />

Kladivová 975 (Korherr has 56,691), 18,746 went to Auschwitz and the<br />

remaining 39,006 into the district <strong>of</strong> Lublin, a figure practically identical<br />

to the one mentioned previously (38,889) given by the Polish historian<br />

Janina Kiebo. 921 As we have seen, Schelvis writes that 28,284<br />

went to Sobibór.<br />

As far as the 69,677 Jews from the Protectorate <strong>of</strong> Bohemia and Moravia<br />

are concerned, 18,004 <strong>of</strong> the 39,722 who had been evacuated to<br />

Theresienstadt were deported to Treblinka between 19 September and<br />

22 October 1942 976 and 10,000 <strong>of</strong> the 14,001 moved into the Lublin district<br />

were sent to Sobibór according to Schelvis.<br />

From the 19,433 Jews <strong>of</strong> the Altreich, Ostmark, and the Protectorate<br />

who initially went to the od ghetto 11,233 were transferred in March,<br />

August, and September 1942, 977 hence they are already included in the<br />

145,301 Jews transited through the Warthegau camps.<br />

972<br />

973<br />

974<br />

975<br />

976<br />

977<br />

Except for the 6,651 Jews already deported from Ostmark to Nisko and other places.<br />

C. Mattogno, J. Graf, op. cit. (note 10, Engl. ed.), pp. 224ff. (list <strong>of</strong> the transports).<br />

But the total number <strong>of</strong> the deportees came to 21,809.<br />

Vlasta Kladivová, “Osudy židowských transport ze Slovenska v Osvtimi,” in:<br />

Tragédia slovenských židov, Banská Bystrica, 1992, pp. 148f.<br />

Miroslav Kárný (ed.), Terezínská Pamtní Kniha (Guide to the Terezín Memorial Book),<br />

Terezínská Iniciativa, Melantrich, Prague 1995, vol. I, p. 67.<br />

WAPL, “Stand der Transporte,” PSZ, 1203.

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