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350 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
� Be��ec: This camp was closed down in November of 1942, hence no
deportations can have originated there in 1943.
� Sobibór: Jules Schelvis speaks of 68,795 Jews arriving at this camp
in 1943. Even though his figure may be slightly on the high side, 1045
we shall use it in compensation of any possible transfers from Majdanek
and round it to 69,000 for the sake of simplicity.
� Treblinka: In the third edition (2003) of his standard work, Hilberg
sets the total number of Jews taken to Treblinka at “up to
800,000.” 1046 Using Hilberg’s maximum as a working hypothesis
and deducting from it the 713,555 deportees mentioned in the Höfle
radio message 1044 as having been taken to Treblinka up to the end of
1942, we obtain a maximum figure of 86,445, rounded to 86,000
persons.
On this basis we can estimate the number of Jews moved from the
camps of Aktion Reinhardt to the eastern areas in 1943 as being (69,000
+ 86,000 =) 155,000 persons at the utmost. Together with the deportees
of 1942, i.e. 1,274,166 or roughly 1,274,000 persons, we obtain a combined
maximum of about 1,429,000 persons.
Now, what was the share of non-Polish deportees within this group?
On the subject of Jews deported to the Aktion Reinhardt camps from
Western and Southern Europe, the only precise indications concern Sobibór
and Treblinka:
� Sobibór: If we follow Jules Schelvis, out of the total of about
170,165 (rounded to 170,200) deportees moved to this camp, some
54,550 came from Poland and another 13,700 from Ostland. 1045
Hence, if Schelvis’ figures are correct, about (170,200 � 54,500 �
13,700 =) 102,000 Jews from other countries must have reached Sobibór.
� Treblinka: According to the Enzyklopädie des Holocaust the following
non-Polish Jews arrived at the Treblinka camp: 7,000 from Slovakia,
8,000 from Theresienstadt, 4,000 from Greece, 2,800 from
Saloniki (which for unknown reasons is treated separately from the
remainder of Greece), as well as 7,000 from Macedonia, 1047 yielding
a total of 28,800 persons. As the documented number of Jews from
Theresienstadt was not 8,000, but 18,004 (rounded off to 18,000 per-
1045 Cf. chapter 2.3.19.
1046 R. Hilberg, op. cit. (note 33), p. 1320.
1047 Enzyklopädie des Holocaust, op. cit. (note 15), vol. I, p. 1430.