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50 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
Page 198 of the English version has the following list for the deportations
of 1943:
– Ostland (Lida, Minsk, Vilnius): 13,700
– General Government: 14,900
– Holland: 34,313
– France: 3,500
– Skopje: 74 2,382
Total: 68,795
Thus, Schelvis gives us the following grand total (English version, p.
198):
Table 1: Deportations to Sobibór Camp
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 1942 1943 TOTAL
Holland – 34,313 34,313
Skopje – 2,382 2,382
France – 3,500 3,500
Ostland – 13,700 13,700
General Government 39,586 14,900 54,486
Slovakia 28,284 – 28,284
Protectorate 10,000 – 10,000
Germany, incl. Austria 23,500 – 23,500
Grand total 101,370 68,795 170,165
We wish to point out that Schelvis’ figure for the French Jews is
higher by about 1,500 persons than the one given by Serge Klarsfeld in
his standard work Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France,
which speaks of a total of 2,002 French Jews deported to Sobibór. 75
With respect to the Occupied Eastern Territories (German occupied
areas of the Soviet Union) Schelvis relies exclusively on witness accounts.
He believes that there were six transports and “possibly” a seventh
and an eighth transport (p. 97f, English version). We may thus
conclude that there is no documentary evidence concerning these transports
– which does not necessarily mean, of course, that they did not
take place. No one may doubt the presence of Alexander Pechersky and
other Soviet Jews in Sobibór, even though the respective transport can-
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At the time Skopje belonged to Bulgaria.
Serge Klarsfeld, Le Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France, Beate and Serge
Klarsfeld, Paris 1978. Klarsfeld’s book has no page numbers. In a “chronological table
of the deportation trains,” he mentions two transports from France to Sobibór, the first
one leaving on 23 March 1943 and carrying 994 persons, the second leaving on 25
March and carrying 1,008 deportees.