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88 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
cording to the second version, the camp had been in existence for a
year and half by September 1943; no total number is given for the
victims, but if there was a trainload of victims every other day and if
they were killed on arrival with only a handful of exceptions, then
the number of those killed must have amounted to some 550,000
persons.
For the following analysis we will use as a basis the (long) 1967
English version “Revolt in Sobibór.”
Pechersky’s report is full of outrageous lies. He starts out by saying
that he and his fellow deportees, during their train ride of four and a half
days from Minsk to Sobibór in a hopelessly overcrowded car (p. 18),
“were not given any food, not even a drink of water.” Under such circumstances
the better part of the deportees would have died of thirst on
the way, but Pechersky does not mention a single death – even “twoyear-old
Nellie” had survived, although she would be killed on the spot
as soon as she arrived at Sobibór (p. 21). As the Germans immediately
selected a portion of the new arrivals – Pechersky among them – for
work in the carpentry shop, it would obviously have been totally counter-productive
for them to save a few buckets of water in exchange for
the loss of valuable hands. On the other hand, if the death of the detainees
had been their objective, they could simply have left them in the
overcrowded cars without any water for a little longer. In that case all
they would have had to do was to bury the corpses; no “extermination
installations” would have been needed.
Right after his arrival Pechersky learns from “a short stocky Jew”
that a mass annihilation of human beings is going on at Sobibór:
“I noticed, to the northwest of us, gray columns of smoke rising
and disappearing in the distance. The air was full of the sharp smell
of something smoldering.
‘What’s burning there’ I asked.
‘Don’t look in that direction,’ the Jew replied, ‘your comrades’
bodies are burning there, the ones who arrived together with you.’
I almost fainted. He continued: ‘You are not the first and not the
last. Every other day, a transport of 2,000 arrives here, and the
camp has been in existence for nearly a year and a half.’” (p. 19)
Hence, even as late as September 1943, 2,000 Jews were murdered
at Sobibór every other day (=1,000 per day). On the following pages
Pechersky goes on to mention the arrival of new transports of victims.