TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

252 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
“These days, however, brought us the schlichtim [Deported People] reports,
which justified a little hope that small remnants can still be found
there. We received approximately 200 letters from D�blin-Irena and Ko�skowala,
Lublin district, where in addition to our Jews also Belgian Jews
reside, who arrived there during the last weeks.”
But all of the transports leaving from Belgium up to the end of March 1943
had been taken to Auschwitz, 732 so that the Belgian Jews to be found in D�blin-Irena
733 and Ko�skowala – a village 6 km from Pu�awy – must have
reached there from Auschwitz, in fact within the framework of the migration
east previously described.
Other Jews were deported to the ghetto of Grodno (White Russia). They,
too, had to have arrived there via Auschwitz. In a report entitled “Warunki
materialne bytu �ydów” (Material living conditions of the Jews), from the
second half of the year 1942, one reads in regard to the ghetto of Lodz: 734
“There is a factor, which is causing the number of Jews to increase.
This factor consists of the evacuations from the regions occupied by the
Germans. Information about such evacuations arrives in succession. It is
known that 23,000 Jews from Berlin, Vienna, and Prague have been transferred
to Lodz; similar instances are also known in Warsaw; recently, a
certain number of Jews was transferred from Belgium to Grodno.”
The documents just cited prove that a considerable portion of the Jewish
population of western Europe (namely of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands)
was deported to the east from the second half of 1942 on, and, in fact,
via Auschwitz, which served as a transit camp. The immediate destination of
these Jews was the General Gouvernement or Riga, from which the transports
traveled farther on to the east.
This policy was still is effect on May 5, 1943. On that day SS-Gruppenführer
Wilhelm Harster, commander of the Security Police and SD in Holland,
wrote a note, in which he summarized the orders from the RSHA for the following
months: 735
“1.) General lines:
The RFSS desires that as many Jews as humanly possible be deported
to the east in this year.
2.) The next trains to the east:
Since a new synthetic rubber plant, which was destroyed in the west by
air attacks, is supposed to be built in Auschwitz, above all a maximum
732 Serge Klarsfeld and Maxime Steinberg, Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de Belgique,
The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New York 1994, pp. 42-45.
733 Irena is a suburb of D�blin.
734 Maria Tyszkowa, “Eksterminacja �ydów w latach 1941-1943. Dokumenty Biura Informacji i
Propagandy KG AK w zbiorach oddzia�u r�kopisów BUW,” in: Biuletyn �ydowskiego Instytutu
Historycznego w Polsce, no. 4 (1964), 1992, p. 49.
735 T-544.