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266 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
same meaning as “handed over to the SS-Sonderkommando.” Nonetheless the
1,023 ‘resettled’ Jews are regarded by orthodox historians as ‘gassed in Be�-
�ec.’ 796 Finally, there is an indication that there was a ‘resettlement quarter’ in
Rava-Russka even before a ‘Jewish residential district’ was established in the
local ghetto.
The guidelines of the Jewish policy in the entire General Gouvernement
were made known to the authorities of Lemberg by Brigadeführer Katzmann
on August 6, 1942: 797
“Brigadeführer [Brigadier General] Katzmann announced that within
half a year there will no longer be any Jews at large in the General Gouvernement.
The people are in part being evacuated, in part are taken to
camps. Isolated Jews living in the country are killed by the Einsatzkommandos.
Jews concentrated in the cities are in part liquidated in large operations,
partly evacuated, partly collected in labor camps.”
These orders make a clear distinction between “evacuated,” “taken to
camps,” and “killed” in the one case as well as “liquidated,” “evacuated,” and
“collected into labor camps” in the other case. In no instance would “evacuated”
allow anyone to understand it as synonymous for “killed” or “liquidated”;
the expression is therefore to be taken quite literally.
It is unknown by what criteria the classification of the Jews into these three
groups was performed and how large their respective percentages were, but it
should be permissible to assume that the ‘Soviet Jews’ (i.e., Jews that moved
to eastern Poland after its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1939) as well as
those Jews who had committed anti-German acts or who were suspected of
such, were supposed to be liquidated. On October 28, 1942, SS-Obergruppenführer
Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger, in his capacity as Senior SS and Police
Chief in the General Gouvernement and Secretary of State for the Security
Services, issued a “Police regulation concerning the formation of Jewish living
quarters in the districts of Warsaw and Lublin,” by which the establishment
of 14 Jewish residential districts was prescribed. 798 Also included was
the Konskowola area, in which, according to the Slovakian Zionist Gisi
Fleischmann, Belgian Jews were found in March 1943 (who obviously had arrived
there via Auschwitz).
796 A. Krug�ow, op. cit. (note 790, p. 106), speaks of 2,500 deported to Be��ec on October 28,
1942, while Y. Arad contents himself with “hundreds,” op. cit. (note 72), p. 385.
797 DAL, R-35-12-42, p. 70.
798 Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement. Issued at Krakow, November 1, 1942. No.
94, p. 665: a) in the District of Warsaw in: city of Warsaw (ghetto), Kaluszyn (Kreishauptmannschaft
Minsk), Sobolew (Administrative District Garwolin), Kossów (Administrative
District Sokolow), Rembertów (Administrative District Warsaw-Land), Siedlce (Administrative
District Siedlce); b) in the District of Lublin in: �uków Parczew and Mi�dzyrzec (Administrative
District Radzyn), W�odawa (Administrative District Chom), Konskowola (Administrative
District Pu�awy), Piaski (Administrative District Lublin-Land), Zaklików (Administrative
District Krasnik), Izbica (Administrative District Krasnystaw).