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234 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
3,436 from the Krakow ghetto from November 29, 1940, to April 2, 1941. 681
In addition, in 1940, 1,200 Jews were deported into that area from Stettin,
5,570 from prison camps, 5,250 from the Warsaw district, and 1,020 from
Krakow. In 1941, 6,280 Jews were sent into the ‘Reservation’ from the incorporated
Polish territories, 1,530 Jews from prison camps, 2,200 from the Warsaw
district, and 2,520 from Krakow. 682 Therefore, from 1939 to 1941, a total
of approximately 79,600 Jews arrived in that zone. The transportation of western
Jews into the Lublin district started again in March 1942, but this time
within the framework of a new policy.
2. Transports of Jews into the Lublin District in 1942
At the beginning of 1942, the Germans began to concentrate the Polish
Jews in the district of Lublin and then subsequently to deport them farther to
the east in order to make room for the Jews from the Altreich, from the Ostmark,
from Slovenia, and from the Protectorate. These evacuations were arranged
by an office of the government of the General Gouvernement, the
“Hauptabteilung innere Verwaltung Abteilung Bevölkerungswesen und Fürsorge”
(Main Department of Internal Administration, Department of Population
and Welfare), to which the sub-departmental manager Richard Türk as
well as the local authorities delivered the corresponding reports.
One of the first of these reports dates from January 6, 1942, and concerns
the “Evacuation of 2,000 Jews from Mielec.” There it says: 683
“1,000 Jews are coming to the administrative district of Hrubieszow,
their final destination Hrubieszow station. 1,000 Jews are coming to the
administrative district of Cholm; the destination of 400 of them is the W�odawa
station, Parczew station is the final destination of 600. Date after
which these places will be ready to accept them is January 15, 1942.”
The next report dealing with this transfer warned the authorities: 684
“I am asking you to absolutely see to it that the Jews are received at the
station of their destination and are properly directed to locations as determined
by you; so that it does not happen, as it has in other cases, that the
Jews arrive at their station of destination without supervision and are now
dispersed all across the country.”
On January 21, 1942, the number of Jews being evacuated from Mielec
was increased to 4,500. 685 The evacuation began on March 11, 1942. The
4,500 Jews were distributed as follows: 686
681 Ibid., pp. 71f.
682 Ibid., p. 73.
683 Józef Kermisz, Dokumenty i Materia�y do dziejów okupacji niemieckiej w Polsce, Tom II,
“Akce” i “Wysiedlenia,” Warsaw-Lodz-Krakow 1946, p. 10.
684 Ibid., p. 11.