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320 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong><br />

This is to say that some 90,000 Jews have been counted twice, first<br />

as evacuated, later on as transited.<br />

The Korherr report of 28 April counts 1,274,031 Jews as having<br />

been “passed through the camps in the General Gouvernment,” an expression<br />

which leaves open the possibility of non-Polish Jews also having<br />

passed through such camps; the report of 19 April instead assigns<br />

this number explicitly to “General Gouvernment (incl. Lemberg).” Here<br />

it is in fact said that there were 2,000,000 Jews in this territory when it<br />

was taken over by the Germans; 427,920 are counted as losses due to<br />

emigration and excess of mortality over births as well as 1,274,166 due<br />

to evacuation, which means that as of 21 December 1942 only 297,914<br />

remained in the area. The Höfle telegram, however, refers to the total<br />

number of Jews who transited through the camps of Aktion Reinhardt,<br />

not only to the fraction of Polish Jews.<br />

Let us consider item 5 of the report dated 28 April 1943. The Jews<br />

listed there were taken to Auschwitz, except for the 39,006 (37,945 for<br />

Korherr) sent to the Lublin district. Table 9 lists, next to Korherr’s data,<br />

the deportations to Auschwitz according to F. Piper, 978 the registrations<br />

at Auschwitz given in Danuta Czech’s Kalendarium, 825 as well as those<br />

selected (i.e. taken off the train) at Kosel before arriving at Auschwitz.<br />

979<br />

Table 9: Jews deported to and registered at Auschwitz<br />

Author: Korherr: Piper: Czech: Klarsfeld: Total<br />

Country<br />

Deported Deported Registered Selected at<br />

Kosel<br />

registered/<br />

selected<br />

France 41,911 41,951 17,561 3,056 20,617<br />

Netherlands 38,571 38,578 11,180 3,540 14,720<br />

Belgium 16,886 16,621 4,489 1,373 5,862<br />

Norway 532 532 186 0 186<br />

Slovakia 56,691 18,746 975<br />

12,787 0 12,787<br />

Croatia 4,927 5,000 587 0 587<br />

Total 159,518 121,428 46,790 7,969 54,759<br />

These Jews, although they were moved into the alleged extermination<br />

camp at Auschwitz, do not show up in the category which was<br />

originally labeled “special treatment of Jews.” We will see later on how<br />

978 F. Piper, op. cit. (note 378), pp. 183-198.<br />

979 Data taken from: S. Klarsfeld, op. cit. (note 75); Serge Klarsfeld, Maxime Steinberg,<br />

Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de Belgique, The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, New<br />

York 1994; Het Nederlandsche Roode Kruis, Auschwitz. Deel II: De deportatietransporten<br />

van 15 juli 1942 tot en met 24 august 1942. ‘s Gravenhage 1948.

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