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102 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
Thus, it is clear that the reference to “the most recent results of research” does
not refer to any discovery of previously unknown documents – such are in fact
not mentioned – but rather exclusively to new arithmetical acrobatics with large
unknown factors (number and capacity of trains, period of the deportations).
In dealing with the number of victims, nothing better occurred to Stanis�aw
Wojtczak, the author of the most substantially documented summary of the
Treblinka literature (1975), than to accept Judge �ukaszkiewicz’s hypothesis.
He divides the history of the camp into three periods: during the first (July 23
to mid-December 1942), 640,000 people were murdered; during the second
(January to mid-May 1943), 80,000; and during the third (August 2, 1943, to
the closing of the camp), a further 30,000, therefore a total of 750,000. 252
In 1982, Uwe Dietrich Adam divided the camp history into two periods,
that from July 23, 1942, to August 28, 1942, with 215,000 victims, and that
from September 1942 to October 1943 with 485,000 victims, so that the total
number of victims amounts to 700,000. 253
In his 1987 book, Yitzhak Arad provides a detailed list of the transports to
Treblinka; he is the only one to have done so. 254 Since his list is very long, we
restrict ourselves here to reproducing the districts of origin and the numbers:
District� Number Deported�
Warsaw� 365,720�
Radom� 364,400�
Lublin� 33,300�
Bia�ystok� 117,970�
Total � 881,390 �
Divided according to year, Arad’s data give the following picture:
1942: 824,170
1943: 57,220
An accurate classification of these numbers by month is not possible, since
the waves of deportation often began during one month and ended during the
next. But the following picture emerges as an approximation:
1942 1943
July and August: 314,000 January: 28,220
September: 177,000 February: 14,400
October: 203,000 April: 3,500
November: 98,000 May: 3,500
December: 32,170 August: 7,600
252 S. Wojtczak, op. cit. (note 61), pp. 151f.
253 Uwe Dietrich Adam, “Les chambres à gaz,” in: Colloque de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Allemagne nazie et le génocide juif, Gallimard-Le Seuil, Paris 1985, pp.
248f.
254 Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 72), pp. 392-397.