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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR 307 Jews who arrived at Majdanek; 935 they were probably moved elsewhere later on. Only one Dutch name appears in the Totenmeldung (death record) series: Lewy Trompetter, born in Amsterdam on 27 April 1873 and registered, at age 69 with the ID number 7593; he died on 1 st December 1942. 936 Besides the transports to the Lublin district, between 5 May and 28 November 1942 a full 36 transports of western Jews (over 35,000 persons) were deported into the localities in the eastern territories mentioned previously, bypassing completely the three alleged extermination camps of Be��ec, Sobibór, and Treblinka. The 124 transports which went from Vienna to Minsk between 16 May and 28 November 1942 followed the line Vienna-Lundenburg-Prerau, skirting Auschwitz to the west via Oppeln (Opole) and Tschenstochau (Czestochowa) towards Warsaw, with some of them going on to Wolskowysk-Minsk via Bia�ystok. To do that, they passed through Malkinia, some 4 km from the “extermination camp” at Treblinka. Some other transports proceeded via Siedlce-Czeremcha-Wolkowysk and thus came as close as 80 km to Treblinka and 140 km to Sobibór. In the “train schedule order No. 40” of the German railway administration located at Minsk we can read: 937 “According to an announcement by RBD [Reichsbahndirektion, Imperial Rail Administration] Königsberg, there will be a weekly special train (Zugg [sic] 30,9) on Friday/Saturday with about 1,000 persons from Vienna via Bialystok-Baranowitsche to Minsk Gbf [freight station] having the following schedule…” Schedule order No. 517 of RBD Vienna, dated 18 May 1942, mentions the following routing for the transports from Vienna to Minsk: 938 “Wien Aspangbahnhof – Wien Nordbf – Lundenburg – Prerau – Olmütz – Groß Wisternitz – Jägerndorf – Neisse – Oppeln – Tschenstochau – Warschau West Gbf – Siedlce – Platerow – Czeremcha – Wolkowysk – Minsk.” Why would one want to make a detour of some 300 km around three “extermination camps” with trainloads of Jews destined to be killed? 935 Z. Leszczy�ska, op. cit. (note 933) p. 189. 936 GARF, 7021-107-3, p. 234. 937 Haupteisenbahndirektion Mitte, Fahrplananordnung Nr. 40 of 13 May 1942. NARB, 378-1-784. 938 Deutsche Reichsbahn. Reichsbahndirektion Wien, Fahrplananordnung Nr 517 of 18 May1942. NARB, 378-1-784.
308 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR Another event which is inexplicable from the mainstream Holocaust point of view has been noted by Jules Schelvis: 939 “The intriguing question is why, in the spring and summer of 1943, the transports from Western Europe headed for Sobibór rather than Auschwitz/Birkenau, which was in fact closer.” Schelvis acknowledges both the argument that the German war industry near Auschwitz at the time needed Jewish manpower and that the alleged extermination facilities at Auschwitz-Birkenau would have had sufficient capacity to handle these Dutch Jews. 940 Hence, the reason for the deportations of these people to Sobibór remains mysterious. The transports from Westerbork ran along the line Breslau (Wroc- �aw) – Oppeln – Czestochowa – Kielce– Radom – D�bin – Lublino – Cholm (Che�m). Going south from Czestochowa, along the line Zawiercie – Szczakowa – Mys�owice, the Auschwitz camp is only some 100 km away – instead, the transports went east, another 400 km, to reach Sobibór. Schelvis himself then gives us a solid indication for the answer to this apparent riddle: 941 “Mirjam Penha-Blits was on the same train. [942] She explained that the transport was apparently supposed to go to Auschwitz; after two days’ travelling in passenger wagons that is where it arrived. For unknown reasons it stood stationary there; nothing else happened. No one was allowed to leave the wagons. After a few hours the train departed, and two days later we arrived at Sobibór.” In the summary of this account, supplied by the Dutch Red Cross, one can read: 943 “Deported by train from Westerbork on 10 March 1943, arrival at Sobibór around 13 March 1943 (via Birkenau – without lay-over – to Sobibór).” The train thus passed through the alleged extermination camp at Birkenau only to continue east for hundreds of kilometers – but why? The answer is found in a general memorandum dated 5 May 1943 and written by SS-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Harster, head of security police and SD in Holland: 944 “1) General policy: 939 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 70), p. 14. 940 Ibid., pp. 14f. 941 J. Schelvis, op. cit. (note 71), p. 73. 942 The train from The Hague which reached Sobibór on 13 March 1943. 943 Het Nederlandsche Roode Kruis, op. cit. (note 124), p.16. 944 T-544.
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