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tistical data at times diverge considerably from those of Korherr. 1034 We
must, however, remember that he was also well informed about the destination
of the deportees. What he writes is in any case confirmed by
contemporary documents. 1035
A number of high-level meetings of German officials in late 1941
dealing with the deportations from the Protectorate to the East and the
difficulties encountered at the receiving end have been discussed in detail
in chapter 7.
The Israelitisches Wochenblatt für die Schweiz (Israelite weekly for
Switzerland) reported the following on 16 October 1942: 1036
“For some time there has been a trend toward dissolution of the
ghettos in Poland. That was the case with Lublin, then it was Warsaw’s
turn. It is not known how far the plan has been carried out already.
The former residents of the ghetto are going farther to the
east into the occupied Russian territory; Jews from Germany were
brought into the ghetto to partly take their place. […] an eye witness,
who was in Riga a short time ago and was able to flee, reports
that 32,000 Jews are still in the ghetto of Riga now. Since the occupation,
thousands of Jews have been killed. In the morning, the Jews
are said to have to line up outside the city for forced labor. They are
said to not receive salaries but only permissions for food supply.
Compared to the rest of the populace, they are said to receive only
severely short rations: they are said to receive only 100 g of bread
daily and 2 kg of potatoes per week. Recently, transports of Jews
from Belgium and other nations of western Europe were noted in
Riga, which, however, immediately traveled on again toward unknown
destinations. In the ghetto of Riga, so it is said, there were
pogroms on the 30th of November and the 8th of December, to
which a great many Jews fell victim.”
What was the fate of these deportees? We will address this question
in the next chapter.
1034
However, the total number of missing registered Jews is equal to Korherr’s figure: 4 milion.
NO-5194, p. 15.
1035
For a more detailed treatment of this topic we refer the reader to chapter VIII.6: “Final
Destination of Jews Deported to the East,” C. Mattogno, J. Graf, op. cit. (note 10, Engl.
ed.), pp. 233-273.
1036
Israelitisches Wochenblatt für die Schweiz, No. 42, 16. Oktober 1942, p. 10f.