Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: May Deportations to Belzec Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Belzec,Lublin,Stangl,Wirth Archive/File: holocaust/poland/reinhard/belzec belzec.05 Last modified: 1993/03/05 Deportations to Belzec - District of Lublin Date of Deportation Town Number of Deportees ------------------------------------------------------------------- May Szczebrzeszyn 280 May 22 Tyszowce 580-800 May 23 Komarow 1,000 May 27 Lasczow 350 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Franz Stangl was sent to command Sobibor after construction fell behind schedule in the Spring of 1942. His commanding officer sent him to meet with Wirtz at Belzec, and he described his visit thus: "I went there by car. As one arrived, one first reached Belzec railway station... Oh, God, the smell! It was everywhere. Wirth wasn't in his office. I remember they took me to him... he was standing on a hill next to the pits... the pits.... full...they were full. I cannot tell you; not hundreds, thousands, thousands, thousands of corpses... that's where Wirth told --- he said that was what Sobibor was for... Wirth told me I should definately become the commander of Sobibor. I answered that I was not qualified for such a mission.... I received from Globocnik the task to erect the camp. That it was not to be an ammunition camp but a camp for killing Jews I learned finally from Wirth. ... Actually, I was not relieved [of my post]. I stayed in Sobibor. Transports arrived and were liquidated..." <1> <1> Excerpted from Gita Serini's "Into the Darkness" (London, 1974, pp.109-111) as quoted in... BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7 ---------------------------------------------------------------- "An extremely valuable research study undertaken to establish the timetable and number of deported Jews from the General Government and to which death camp they were sent was carried out by Tatiana Berenstein and published in Poland in the Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutn Historycznego (Bulletin of the Jewish Historical Institute), Warsaw, No. 3/1952, No. 21/1957, No. 59/1966, No. 61/1967. Another source is the "Luach Hashoa (Holocaust Calendar) of Polish Jewry" prepared by Rabbi Israel Schepansky and published by "Or Hamizrach," New York, 1974. A most important and more up to date source is the Pinkas Hakebillot (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities), Poland, Vol. II, Eastern Galicia, and Vol. III, Western Galicia, published by Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, in 1980 and 1984. The ... tables of the deportations are based on all the aforementioned primary sources and research studies." <2> <2> 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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