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

B, conceived in laboratories in Germany with the only aim <strong>of</strong> answering<br />

to a demand from the genocidal murderers to discover a<br />

product which would kill more quickly.”<br />

This means that the camp now had two gassing installations, both <strong>of</strong><br />

them containing a single gas chamber into which Zyklon B was<br />

dropped through a “moveable skylight.” The problematic nature <strong>of</strong> this<br />

account is obvious. Not only the number <strong>of</strong> buildings and individual gas<br />

chambers, but also the alleged murder weapon clashes violently with<br />

the established historiography, which has it that Kurt Gerstein’s supposed<br />

mission to replace the engine exhaust gas used as killing agent<br />

with hydrogen cyanide “did not bring about any changes in the gassing<br />

system in the Operation Reinhard death camps.” 189<br />

The presence in the witness accounts <strong>of</strong> the communications discussed<br />

above poses an important question regarding the veracity <strong>of</strong> the<br />

testimonies: If the mass gassing allegation is indeed true, why are the<br />

contents <strong>of</strong> the supposed letters from camp III either inconsistent with<br />

the <strong>of</strong>ficial narrative as established at the Sobibór trials or plainly absurd?<br />

It may be worth noting in this context that Jules Schelvis, in the<br />

most complete historiographic work to date on the Sobibór camp, does<br />

not devote a single word to these letters.<br />

4.2. Alexander Pechersky, the Main Witness<br />

Alexander Aronovitch Pechersky (1909 – 1990), the leader <strong>of</strong> the<br />

successful uprising in Sobibór, is one <strong>of</strong> the stars <strong>of</strong> the history <strong>of</strong> the<br />

“<strong>Holocaust</strong>.” He is the protagonist <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> movies about the<br />

uprising, among which we have Jack Gold’s Escape from Sobibór<br />

(1987) and Claude Lanzmann’s Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures<br />

(2001).<br />

Alexander Pechersky was drafted into the Red Army in June 1941 as<br />

a sergeant and was promoted to lieutenant in September <strong>of</strong> the same<br />

year. A month later he was taken prisoner by the Germans. After a<br />

failed attempt to escape he was deported to Borisov in May 1942 and<br />

then to a work camp at Minsk. On 18 September 1943 he was loaded<br />

onto a train together with all other Jews held at that camp. On 23 September<br />

he arrived at Sobibór, where he remained until the uprising on<br />

189<br />

Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 104.

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