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260 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
hours; her return home to Holland took place by way of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
764
Jozef Wins de Heer, deported on May 11, 1943, went from Sobibór to
Doruhucza. He returned home to the Netherlands by way of Lublin-Majdanek.
765
In a well-documented book, which was published in Dutch in 1993 and
was later translated into German, Jules Schelvis writes that “in Sobibor, after
the arrival of transports, the fresh work forces for Dorohucza” were “selected.”
766 At Dorohucza, 5 km from Trawniki, was a labor camp where peat
was cut. According to Schelvis, at least 700 Dutch Jews were transferred there
directly after their arrival in Sobibór, but he claims that only two of them are
supposed to have survived the war. 766 There is certain knowledge of 171 of
these persons – 147 men and 24 women – since they sent postcards home
from Dorohucza. 767
Dorohucza was only one of many Jewish labor camps, which overlay the
Lublin district like a dense network. Edward Dziadosz and Józef Marsza�ek
count no fewer than 110 of them. 768 As can be gathered from the statements of
former deportees summarized above, other Dutch Jews were transferred from
Sobibór to Lublin and then onward to these labor camps. Schelvis has documented
a total of 89 postcards sent by Dutch Jews from Sobibór, 171 from
Dorohucza, 52 from Lublin and 9 from Upper Silesia. 769
It also happened that a portion of the Jews fit to work were sorted out from
the rail cars before the train reached its final destination. This was the case for
a transport that departed Vienna on June 14, 1942. After the train had arrived
in Lublin, 51 Jews between 15 and 50 years of age had to get off; the remaining
949 continued their trip to the “labor camp” Sobibór, where it took an
hour to unload the train. The original destination of the trip had been Izbica. 770
It is characteristic that nearly all the Dutch Jews, who had been transferred
from Sobibór to another camp, returned home by way of Auschwitz-Birkenau;
instead of being liquidated as bearers of top-secret knowledge, they survived
even this ‘extermination camp.’
From what has been established here, it emerges that a portion of the Jews
deported to the Lublin district were deported across the Bug into the Ukraine.
Dutch, French, and Czech Jews reached Minsk. 771 The deportation of Polish
764
Ibid., Verklaring 188, p. 19.
765
Ibid., Verklaring 192, p. 20.
766
Jules Schelvis, Vernichtungslager Sobibor, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 137.
767
Ibid., p. 140.
768
Edward Dziadosz, Józef Marsza�ek, “Wiezienia i obozy w dystrykcie lubelskim w latach
1939-1944,” in: Zeszyty Majdanka, III, 1969, pp. 109-120.
769
J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 766), p. 160.
770
“Erfahrungsbericht” of the transport leader Josef Frischmann; ibid., pp. 70f.
771
C. Gerlach, op. cit. (note 419), p. 761.