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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 347<br />

10. The Fate <strong>of</strong> the Deportees<br />

10.1. The Fate <strong>of</strong> Jews Deported Directly to the East<br />

As mentioned above, Reichsbahn documents show that at least<br />

66,210 Jews from the Altreich, Austria and the Protectorate <strong>of</strong> Bohemia<br />

and Moravia were moved directly into the occupied Eastern Territories<br />

between November <strong>of</strong> 1941 and November <strong>of</strong> 1942. 1037 We can retrace<br />

the fate <strong>of</strong> a certain portion <strong>of</strong> these people. In his book The Hoax <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Twentieth Century, Arthur Butz addresses the case <strong>of</strong> the German Jewess<br />

Jeannette Wolff, a socialist who was taken to Riga in 1942 and<br />

who described her experiences after the war. 1038 A collective volume<br />

contains the reports <strong>of</strong> seven German Jews, five women and two men,<br />

who were likewise transported to Riga in 1941 and/or 1942 and who<br />

were later moved from there to the Stutth<strong>of</strong> concentration camp east <strong>of</strong><br />

Danzig. 1039<br />

It is <strong>of</strong> interest in this context to note that, out <strong>of</strong> the 48,609 Jews<br />

who arrived at Stutth<strong>of</strong> between 29 June and 27 October 1944, more<br />

than half <strong>of</strong> them – 25,043 persons – came from the Baltic states<br />

(10,458 from Kaunas in Lithuania and 14,585 from Riga in Latvia).<br />

Among them we find hundreds <strong>of</strong> children, labeled “Knabe” (boy) or<br />

“Mädchen” (girl) on the deportation lists. Some <strong>of</strong> the lists for the<br />

transports from Kaunas have survived. We can glean from the corresponding<br />

names and other details that the above designations applied to<br />

persons born in 1929 or later, i.e. to children not older than 15 at the<br />

time. The transport list <strong>of</strong> 12 July 1944 contains 3,098 names, among<br />

them those <strong>of</strong> 80 boys and girls. The nearly complete list <strong>of</strong> 19 July has<br />

88 out <strong>of</strong> 1,095 names which belong to this category. The total number<br />

1037 Cf. end <strong>of</strong> chapter 7, p. 216.<br />

1038 Arthur Butz, The Hoax <strong>of</strong> the Twentieth Century, Theses and Dissertation Press, Chicago<br />

2003, p. 268. Jeannette Wolff’s account was published in the collective volume We Survived,<br />

edited by Eric E. Sstatement in Hagen, Yale University Press, New Haven 1949.<br />

1039 Hermann Kuhn, Stutth<strong>of</strong>. Ein Konzentrationslager vor den Toren Danzigs, Edition<br />

Temmen, Bremen 1990.

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