Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Appendix C: Deportation of Jews
DATE TOTAL DIED NEW LOST ORIGINS NUMBERS
E 23166 177 270 58786-59055
M 23222 109 165 Westerbork 14-Aug 59056-59220
E 16-Aug 23097 134 9 var. nat. 59221-59229
M 23085 127 115 Drancy 14-Aug 59230-59344
E 17-Aug 23183 157 255 Mechelen 15-Aug 59345-59599
M 23096 92 5 var. nat. 59600-59604
E 18-Aug 23112 390 87 var. nat. 59605-59691
M 19-Aug 23112 319 Westerbork 17-Aug 59692-60010
E 22925 220 33 var. nat. 60011-60043
TOTALS (JUL. & AUG.) 6507 13173 5
To give an example of interpretation of these figures, we see that between the
evening of July 16 and the morning of July 17, 1942, the Westerbork transport of
July 15 arrived at Auschwitz, and that 601 men from this transport were registered
in the Birkenau men’s camp and assigned registration numbers 47087-47687.
During this period, 30 men also died in the camp, so the net change in the roll-call
figure is 601-30 = 16848-16277 = 571. Note that the 601 men from the Westerbork
transport of July 15 are approximately the total men that started out on that
transport, if one subtracts boys through 15 years of age. Since the table of
Westerbork deportations has a separate column for “Women with children to 15
years,” it is most probable that such children went with the women.
We have taken the liberty of making two corrections of obvious errors in the
Birkenau men’s camp data. The NRC report specified that 43 died between the
evening of August 5 and 6, but a figure of 44 deaths brings agreement with the
roll-call figures and the total of column 4. Also, the NRC report specifies that the
Mechelen transport of August 15 received registration numbers 59345-59699, an
obvious error which has been corrected.
The increments in registration numbers in column 8 do not agree in all cases
with the numbers reported in column 5. Indeed, this is the case with the majority
of transports, which arrived between July 17 and July 24, and it is also true of the
transports, which received registration numbers 56856-57308. However, in all
other cases the registration numbers in column 8 agree with the figures in column
5.
When boys through 15 years of age are subtracted from the total of men in the
various deportations from Westerbork, the resulting figures are in good general
agreement with the numbers reported registered in the Birkenau men’s camp, although
for reasons that one can probably guess, the agreement is not perfect.
There were probably small numbers who either joined the incoming transports
and are not listed as such or numbers who were not accepted into Birkenau for
various reasons and sent to another destination. The largest unaccounted differences
are in connection with the Westerbork transports of August 7 and August
10, where about 100 men are missing in each case in the registration at Birkenau.
This data, plus the one volume of the Birkenau Death Book (which is also discussed
in vol. 1 of the NRC reports, except that it is referred to as the Auschwitz
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