SOBIBÓR - Holocaust Handbooks

336 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
extent, therefore, the character of deportation and even its direction
were influenced by labour requirements.
Generally speaking, no other group of people has been subjected
to compulsory removal from their homes on so great a scale. This
forced transfer had taken the following forms:
– Mere expulsion from a territory, the Jews being taken to the frontier
of the territory they are to leave. This was the procedure
adopted in regard of the Jews from Alsace and south-west Germany,
who were taken to the French frontier, [1025] and also at
times in regard to the Jews of the Incorporated Provinces, who
were taken to the General Gouvernment and there left to their
fate.
– Mere expulsion from a city without any assignment or destination,
as in the case of the Jews expelled from Cracow.
– Expulsion from an area which is to be ‘purged of Jews’ and deportation
to a special region (e.g. the Lublin reservation), city or
town, or part of such region, city or town. Since 1940 this has
been the usual practice adopted in removing Jews from various
German-controlled territories and deporting them to the General
Government, or, latterly, to the occupied area of the Soviet Union.
– Deportation within the limits of the same territory; thus the Jews
of the General Government are deported to other cities and
towns in the same territory, in which ghettos are set up.
– Removal from one part of a city to another, by means of the setting
up of ghettos or segregation in specified quarters.
– Removal of Jews conscripted for forced labour to special Jewish
labour camps.
It is worth noting that compulsory transfer is tending more and
more to become the sole form of Jewish migration. Thus a Decree of
11 December 1939 prohibited the Jews in the General Government
from changing their residence without a special permit, and similar
measures have been adopted throughout the whole of Germandominated
Europe.
1025 The Jews deported to France from Baden and Pfalz (Palatinate) in Germany, estimated
by Kulischer at 9,000. Korherr has 6,504.