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- Subject: Lest We Forget: TREBLINKA - The Killing Begins
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.120102.16565@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:01:02 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.revisionism
- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Berger,Treblinka
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- 23 JULY 1942
-
- "The first transport of 'deportees' left Malkinia on July 23, 1942, in
- the morning hours. ...It was loaded with Jews from the Warsaw ghetto.
- ... The train was made up of sixty closed cars, crowded with people.
- The car doors were locked from the outside and the air apertures
- barred with barbed wire. ...It was hot, and most of the people in the
- freight cars were in a faint." <1>
-
- The killing was about to begin....
-
- "During this early period, before mid-August, 5,000 to 7,000 Jews
- arrived in Treblinka every day. Then the situation changed, the pace
- of transports increased, and there were days when 10,000 to 12,000
- deportees arrived, including thousands who had died en route and
- others in a state of exhaustion. This state of affairs disrupted the
- "quiet welcome" designed to deceive the deportees into believing they
- had arrived at a transit station and that before continuing their
- journey to a labour camp they must be disinfected. Blows and shooting
- were needed to force those still alive but exhausted to descend from
- the freight cars and proceed to the square and the undressing barracks.
- Abrahman Goldfarb, who arrived at the camp on August 25th., relates:
-
- When we reached Treblinka and the Germans opened the
- freight-car doors, the scene was ghastly. The cars were
- full of corpses. The bodies had been partially consumed by
- chlorine. The stench from the cars caused those still alive
- to choke. The Germans ordered everyone to disembark from
- the cars; those who could were half-dead. SS and Ukrainians
- waiting nearby beat us and shot at us ... <2>
-
- "Oskar Berger, who was brought to Treblinka on August 22, describes
- the scene:
-
- As we disembarked we witnessed a horrible sight: hundreds of
- bodies lying all around. Piles of bundles, clothes, valises,
- everything mixed together. SS soldiers, Germans, and
- Ukrainians were standing on the roofs of barracks and firing
- indiscriminately into the crowd. Men, women, and children
- fell bleeding. The air was filled with screaming and weeping.
- Those not wounded by the shooting were forced through an open
- gate, jumping over the dead and wounded, to a square fenced
- with barbed wire." <3>
-
- <1> Franziszek Zabecki, "Wspomnienia dawne i nowe" Warszawa, 1977, pp.
- 39-40
- <2> A. Goldfarb testimony, Yad Vashem Archives 0-3/1846, pp. 12-13
- <3> Eugen Kogon, "Der SS-Staat" Bonn, 1974, p. 218
-
- Excerpted from....----------------------------------------------
- BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps
- Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7
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