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270 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
Korherr) and of 62,444 for Slovakia 808 (compared to Korherr’s figure of
56,691).
On France, Kulischer writes: 809
“In midsummer 1942 a drive against foreign Jewish refugees in Paris
marked the beginning of mass deportation from France to the ghettos and
concentration camps of eastern Europe.”
Regarding Belgium, he stresses: 810
“In the summer of 1942 deportation was resumed and from October
onward it was on a larger scale. It may be estimated that up to December
1942 about 25,000 foreign Jews had been deported from Belgium, partly to
eastern Europe and partly to France for fortification building.”
On Romania, he cites the Krakauer Zeitung (Krakow Times) of August 13,
1942: 811
“According to a German source, ‘185,000 Jews have been evacuated
since October of last year (i.e. 1941) into Transnistria, where they were
housed in large ghettos until an opportunity arose for their removal further
east. Today there still remain 272,409 Jews in the country… Both the provinces
of Bessarabia and Bukovina can now be considered as free of Jews,
excepting Czernowitz, where there are still about 16,000… It may be assumed
that even during the present year a further 80,000 Jews could be
removed to the eastern territories’. However, according to later reports,
the Rumanian Government announced in October 1942 that there would be
no more ‘evacuations’ to Transnistria.”
Kulischer subsequently devotes a section to the question of the “Territories
of Destination and Methods of Confinement.” He stresses in particular the basic
principle of the deportations of Jews: 812
“Some of the Jews from Belgium were sent to a neighbouring part of
Western Europe for forced labour, but generally speaking the tendency has
been to remove the Jews to the east. Many Western European Jews were
reported to have been sent to the mines of Silesia. The great majority were
sent to the General Government and, in ever growing numbers, to the eastern
area, that is, to the territories which had been under Soviet rule since
September 1939 and to the other occupied areas of the Soviet Union. During
the early period, deportation meant removal to the General Government,
but since 1940 the deported Jews have tended more and more to be
sent exclusively to ghettos and labour camps.”
808 Ibid., p. 102.
809 Ibid. Kulischer overestimates the number of the Jews deported from France up to the summer
of 1943: he speaks of 70,000, while the actual figure was approximately 54,000. (Serge
Klarsfeld, Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France, Paris 1978.)
810 E. Kulischer, ibid., p. 104.
811 Ibid., p. 106.
812 Ibid., p. 107.