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354 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
Seen in this light, the total of 1,994,500 persons arrived at above for
the number of people moved into the eastern areas is necessarily too
high. We wish also to stress that we have accepted the numbers quoted
for the deportations in several instances in mainstream “Holocaust” literature,
even if we judge them to be too high (especially in the case of
the deportations to Treblinka in 1943). If allowance is made for this,
then the actual figure for the Jews who were deported to the eastern
areas may be lower by 100,000 than the maximum estimated by us, thus
possibly being about 1.9 million at the utmost.
10.3. The Dissolution of Polish Jewry in the USSR
We must now consider the question of what happened to the Jews
transferred into the Eastern Territories at the end of the World War II
and over the ensuing years – to the extent that they survived the harsh
conditions of the wartime. We shall first consider the Polish Jews who
constitute the clear majority.
In June 1945 the World Jewish Congress claimed 475,000 to
525,000 Jewish survivors among the Jews formerly residing in Poland
prior to Axis control, of which some 80,000 were still residing in Poland
at war’s end. 1055 At that time repatriation of Polish Jews from the
Soviet Union had just begun. The American Jewish Yearbook states that
by the end of June of 1946, when the repatriations came to an end, some
140,000 Jews had returned to Poland from the Soviet Union. 1056 The
same source puts the number of Jews surviving in Poland before the repatriation
at some 86,000 persons. 1057
The order of magnitude of this latter figure could have been correct.
On 19 July 1942 Heinrich Himmler had decreed that persons of Jewish
origins in the General Government would only be allowed to reside in
the “collection camps,” (i.e. the ghettos) at Warsaw, Cracow, Czestochowa,
Radom, and Lublin. 1058 Over time these ghettos were dissolved
1055 “Statistic on Jewish Casualties during Axis Domination,” Institute of Jewish Affairs,
Records of the World Jewish Congress. Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American
Jewish Archives;
www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nuremberg/documents/index.php?
documentdate=1945-06-00&documentid=C107-6-
1&studycollectionid=&pagenumber=1.
1056 American Jewish Yearbook, No. 49 (1947-1948), p. 381.
1057 American Jewish Yearbook, No. 48 (1946-1947), p. 336.
1058 NO-5574.