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10. The Fate of the Deportees
10.1. The Fate of Jews Deported Directly to the East
As mentioned above, Reichsbahn documents show that at least
66,210 Jews from the Altreich, Austria and the Protectorate of Bohemia
and Moravia were moved directly into the occupied Eastern Territories
between November of 1941 and November of 1942. 1037 We can retrace
the fate of a certain portion of these people. In his book The Hoax of the
Twentieth Century, Arthur Butz addresses the case of the German Jewess
Jeannette Wolff, a socialist who was taken to Riga in 1942 and
who described her experiences after the war. 1038 A collective volume
contains the reports of seven German Jews, five women and two men,
who were likewise transported to Riga in 1941 and/or 1942 and who
were later moved from there to the Stutthof concentration camp east of
Danzig. 1039
It is of interest in this context to note that, out of the 48,609 Jews
who arrived at Stutthof between 29 June and 27 October 1944, more
than half of them – 25,043 persons – came from the Baltic states
(10,458 from Kaunas in Lithuania and 14,585 from Riga in Latvia).
Among them we find hundreds of children, labeled “Knabe” (boy) or
“Mädchen” (girl) on the deportation lists. Some of the lists for the
transports from Kaunas have survived. We can glean from the corresponding
names and other details that the above designations applied to
persons born in 1929 or later, i.e. to children not older than 15 at the
time. The transport list of 12 July 1944 contains 3,098 names, among
them those of 80 boys and girls. The nearly complete list of 19 July has
88 out of 1,095 names which belong to this category. The total number
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Cf. end of chapter 7, p. 216.
1038
Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Theses and Dissertation Press, Chicago
2003, p. 268. Jeannette Wolff’s account was published in the collective volume We Survived,
edited by Eric E. Sstatement in Hagen, Yale University Press, New Haven 1949.
1039
Hermann Kuhn, Stutthof. Ein Konzentrationslager vor den Toren Danzigs, Edition
Temmen, Bremen 1990.