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Majdanek from Poland, 4,000 of whom are said to have been killed
immediately (“zgadzono od razu”). 983 This will be discussed below.
Zofia Leszczyska, the author of the most detailed analysis of the transports
of detainees to Majdanek, asserts that between July and December
of 1942 15,000 Jewish detainees arrived at the camp in 13 transports
and mentions the more important ones:
15 August: a large transport from Warsaw;
2 September: 1,000 Jews from the ghetto at Lublin;
September: Jews from Beyc and Piask;
September: 111 Hitlerjugend youths of Jewish descent;
October: 1,700 Jewish women from Beec(!);
November: Jews from Izbica. 984
For the second half of December there is only one Jewish transport
mentioned in the corresponding list for the 19 th of the month, but neither
the number of persons nor their origin are reported. 985
Further on Witte and Tyas take up the problem of the gassings: 986
“Lublin, however, was a regular concentration camp; from October
1942, three gas chambers were used to murder prisoners after
selections of those deemed unable to work. The number culled during
selections in Majdanek from October onwards is known: their
sum is much lower than the figures given in Höfle’s telegram. As the
document indicates, the murder of Jews transported to Lublin without
being registered at the concentration camp became an integral
part of Einsatz Reinhardt from an unspecified date onward. Further
research, one hopes, will hopefully permit more precise information.”
Hence, the number of those allegedly gassed between October and
December of 1942 is said to be known and to be “much lower than the
figures given in Höfle’s telegram.” But then, how could those 12,761
Jews have been gassed? The authors leave the answer to this contradiction
to future researchers! Their wording is misleading, because it
makes the reader believe that at least part of the 12,761 Jews in question
were indeed gassed. Leaving aside the fact that there were no homicidal
gas chambers at Majdanek, as has been shown in a study concerning
this camp, 686 Witte and Tyas’ pronouncements on the number of alle-
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T. Berenstein, A. Eisenbach, “ydzi w obozie koncentracyjnym Majdanek (1941-1944),”
in: Biuletyn ydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego, n. 58, 1966, p. 14.
Z. Leszczyska, op. cit. (note 886), pp. 188f.
Ibid., p. 219.
P. Witte, S. Tyas, op. cit. (note 18), p. 473.