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162 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
above is why Kola has had to invent the claim that “barracks for the storage
of the possessions of the arriving Jews” were located in camp III,
namely in order to disguise the fact that Object E is a blatant anomaly.
To summarize: Object E cannot be the alleged gas chambers, while
at the same time there is no other place for it in the official historiographic
picture. As will be shown below, this situation has placed contemporary
Sobibór historians in a difficult dilemma.
5.5. Continued Archeological Research 2007-2008
In October 2007 a new archeological team, headed by Isaac Gilead
and Yoram Haimi of the Ben-Gurion University in Israel as well as
Wojciech Mazurek from the Polish firm Sub Terra Archaeological Examinations,
set out to continue Kola’s failed search for the gas chambers.
In July 2008 the team was joined by Paul Bauman and Brad Hansen
of the Calgary firm Worley Parsons Resources and Energy, Phillip
Reeder of the University of South Florida, and Richard Freund of the
University of Hartford, who carried out a geophysical survey using high
resolution metal detection, magnetic gradiometer, terrain conductivity
meter, ground penetrating radar, aerial photography, and GPS mapping.
This work was carried out in the open field south of the circular monument
where the mass graves are located, and in eight 20 × 20 meter
squares placed immediately south and east of the area excavated by the
archeological team in 2007. Several GPR profiles were also conducted
across the “tentatively identified mass graves.” 353
An actual report on the results brought by the archeological survey
of 2007-2008 has yet to appear. In early 2009 a new American journal
on contemporary history, Present Pasts, published an article, “Excavating
Nazi Extermination Centres,” which we have already referred to,
co-authored by Gilead, Haimi, and Mazurek. Of its 30 pages, less than
12 are devoted to Sobibór, and excluding the illustrations, most of
which are of little interest, the description of the new survey covers a
mere four and half pages. In this text there is relatively little information
on what exactly was found and where. The team’s search for the alleged
gas chambers is described as follows: 472
472 I. Gilead, Y. Haimi, W. Mazurek, op. cit. (note 293), p. 27.