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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 305
Between 17 March 1942, the day the Be��ec camp was opened, 923
and 2 May the Lublin district received 29 transports with 26,927 Jews,
none of which went to this alleged extermination camp.
In the period between 3 May, the day Sobibór was opened, 924 and 15
July out of the 41 transports with 40,153 Jews on board which reached
the Lublin district only 12 went to Sobibór, carrying 12,021 persons,
and none went to Be��ec.
In summarizing we determine that a mere 12 of the total of 70 transports
which reached the Lublin district went into the alleged extermination
camps, with a load of 12,021 persons out of of 69,084 passengers
altogether.
One of the 12 transports going to Sobibór, the one which had left
Vienna on 14 June 1942, was originally not supposed to go there at all,
but to Izbica, as we know from Transportführer Josef Frischmann.
When the train left Vienna, SS-Hauptscharführer Girzig of the Central
Agency for Jewish Emigration was present. After a lay-over at Lublin
where SS-Obersturmführer Pohl removed “51 able-bodied Jews between
15 and 50 years of age” and ordered “the remainder of 949 Jews
to be taken to the labor camp at Sobibór,” the train went into “the labor
camp next to the station.” 925
Furthermore, the first of the 12 transports (the one with 1,000 Jews
on board which reached Sobibór-Osawa 926 on 9 May 1942, coming
from Theresienstadt) can obviously not have been gassed in its entirety,
as mainstream historiography will have it: at least 101 Jews from this
convoy died at Majdanek, and the personal data are known for 90 persons
from this latter group, 927 which means that hundreds of these Jews
– if not the entire transport – were moved to this camp.
But not even those Jews who had initially been deported into the
various communities of the district of Lublin were later “gassed” in the
alleged extermination camps at Be��ec and Sobibór. Miroslaw Kryl
found that at least 858 Jews who had been moved to the Lublin district
from the Theresienstadt ghetto and from Prague died at the Majdanek
923
Y. Arad, op. cit. (note 49), p. 68
924
J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 49.
925
Ibid., pp. 70-71, facsimile of “Bericht des Transportführers J. Frischmann,” dated “Wien,
20. Juni 1942.”
926
Osowa is a small community located a few kilometers to the southwest of Sobibór.
927
Cf. the list in: C. Mattogno, op. cit. (note 11, Engl. ed.), pp. 112-114.