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

escaped from captivity or had even been liberated by these very partisans<br />

from their camps or ghettos.<br />

10.4.2. American Jewish Yearbook<br />

In 1943 the American Jewish Yearbook had the following to say on<br />

the subject <strong>of</strong> the developments in Poland in 1942: 1071<br />

“Throughout the year under review [1942], as in previous years,<br />

scores <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> Jews were forcibly deported from their homes<br />

in cities and towns. […] Among the more important <strong>of</strong> these transfers<br />

<strong>of</strong> population was the expulsion <strong>of</strong> all but 11,000 <strong>of</strong> the Jews <strong>of</strong><br />

Cracow, who were deemed ‘economically useful’ and put into a<br />

ghetto; those expelled, over 50,000 in number, were sent to Warsaw,<br />

Lublin and other cities. The stay <strong>of</strong> those sent to Lublin was short,<br />

for most <strong>of</strong> them were sent farther east, those remaining being<br />

penned in a ghetto in one <strong>of</strong> the suburbs <strong>of</strong> the city. Also sent east<br />

were most <strong>of</strong> the Jews who still remained in the western Polish provinces<br />

incorporated into the Reich. […] There was also an influx <strong>of</strong><br />

German, Czech, Dutch and French Jews, forcibly sent into Poland,<br />

either to the ghettos or the labor camps.”<br />

These details are highly valuable in several ways and confront the<br />

representatives <strong>of</strong> the orthodox version <strong>of</strong> history with insurmountable<br />

problems:<br />

1) Orthodox “<strong>Holocaust</strong>” teaching asserts that the alleged gassing <strong>of</strong><br />

Jews at Auschwitz began in February <strong>of</strong> 1942. Why were the Jews<br />

deported from Cracow in 1942 not sent to this camp which, after all,<br />

was only an hour’s drive away, but were shipped to Warsaw and<br />

Lublin instead?<br />

2) Likewise, the Jews deported to Lublin were not gassed in one <strong>of</strong> the<br />

available Aktion Reinhardt camps, but were in their majority “moved<br />

further east.”<br />

3) “The Jews who still remained in the western Polish provinces incorporated<br />

into the Reich” – except for those assigned to the od ghetto<br />

– were allegedly murdered in gas trucks at Chemno, if we are to<br />

believe today’s <strong>of</strong>ficial version <strong>of</strong> history. The American Jewish<br />

Yearbook does not say anything about this, yet asserts instead that<br />

the better part <strong>of</strong> these Jews was “moved to the East.” If they had<br />

1071 American Jewish Yearbook, No. 44 (1942-1943), p. 244f.

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