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104 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka<br />

Warsaw: 254,000<br />

District Warsaw: 110,000 Slovakia: 7,000�<br />

District Radom: 364,000 Theresienstadt: 8,000�<br />

District Lublin 33,000 Greece: 14,000�<br />

District Bia�ystok: 122,000 Total (other nations): 29,000�<br />

Poland total: 883,000<br />

SUM OF VICTIMS� ALL VICTIMS�<br />

1942<br />

1943<br />

837,000<br />

75,000<br />

912,000<br />

Burba’s bar graph refers to the monthly number of victims. Though it contains<br />

no figures, these can be derived without difficulty from the bars, which<br />

reflect the numbers:<br />

1942� 1943 �<br />

January: 28,000<br />

February: 14,000<br />

July: 67,000 March: 14,000<br />

August: 246,000 April: 7,000<br />

September: 200,000 May: 3,500<br />

October: 203,000 June: 0<br />

November: 82,000 July: 0<br />

December: 39,000 August: 8,500<br />

TOTAL 1942: 837,000 TOTAL 1943: 75,000<br />

Thus, according to M. Burba, 912,000 people were killed in Treblinka.<br />

Concerning his sources, the author writes: 259<br />

“The calculation of the number of victims is essentially based upon<br />

documents of the German Reichsbahn [German rail system] and upon surveys<br />

and censuses of the most diverse kind in the ghettos in occupied Poland<br />

as well as eyewitness narratives.”<br />

Yet, in reality, Burba’s figures are based upon the previously mentioned<br />

lists of Arad, whose numbers (881,390) he raised to 883,000, adding to this<br />

29,000 deportees from Slovakia, Theresienstadt, and Greece not mentioned by<br />

Arad.<br />

The arbitrariness, with which such statistics are produced, is even more<br />

blatantly evident in the calculations of Ryszard Czarkowski, who devotes an<br />

entire chapter to them in his 1989 book on Treblinka. He divides the history of<br />

the camp into five periods:<br />

First Period: June 25 to July 23, 1942<br />

Second Period: July 23 to December 15, 1942<br />

Third Period: December 15, 1942, to January 9, 1943<br />

259 Ibid., p. 17.

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