Newsgroups: alt.revisionism,soc.history,talk.politics.misc Subject: LEST WE FORGET: Warsaw Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Heydrich,Treblinka,Warsaw 'In late September 1939... Heydrich began to place all Polish Jews in ghettos, where they could slowly die of hunger and disease. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest of these segregated areas established by the Nazis in Poland. In the summer of 1940 Heydrich, using the excuse that the spread of typhus had to be contained, set up a special section 11 miles in circumference enclosed by a brick wall 10 feet high. In September 1940 more than 80,000 gentile Poles living in the "infected area" were ordered to leave, and the next month about 140,000 Jews living elsewhere in the city were moved in with the 240,000 still in the ghetto. Some 360,000 Jews, a third of Warsaw's population, were herded into a 3.5-square-mile area. 300 to 400 died daily... More than 43,000 starved to death during the first year, and 37,000 in the first nine months of 1942. ...Mass deportations to the gas chambers at Treblinka began. In two months 300,000 Jews were eliminated. ...Fewer than 100 escaped, and of those, only a handful survived the war.' Taken from the ... Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, by Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Professor of History, The City College and The City University of New York. Paragon House, New York, 1989. ISBN 1-55778-144-3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mary Berg left us this record of the atmosphere in the Warsaw Ghetto, which she wrote on January 10, 1941: "Last night we went through several hours of mortal terror. At about 11:00 P.M. a group of Nazi gendarmes broke into the room where our house committee was holding a meeting. The Nazis searched the men, took away whatever money they found, and then ordered the women to strip, hoping to find concealed diamonds. Our subtenant, Mrs. R., who happened to be there, courageously protested, declaring that she would not undress in the presence of men. For this she received a resounding slap on the face and was searched even more harshly than the other women. The women were kept naked for more than two hours while the Nazis put their revolvers to their breats and private parts and threatened to shoot them all if they did not disgorge dollars or diamonds. The beasts did not leave until 2:00 A.M., carrying a scanty loot of a few watches, some paltry rings, and a small sum in Polish zlotys. They did not find either diamonds or dollars. The inhabitants of the ghetto expect such attacks every night, but this does not stop the meetings of the house committees." (Berg, Mary. Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary. pseud. Mary Wattenberg. Trans. Sylvia Glass and Norbert Guterman. New York: Fisher, 1945) To feel some of the pain and terror associated with the life of the Warsaw Ghetto, we need only consider the following, and ask ourselves what it must have been like living there.... Deportations to Treblinka - The District of Warsaw Date of Deportation Town Number of Deportees ------------------------------------------------------------------- Warsaw County ------------------------------------------------------------------- July 22-Aug. 28, 1942 Warsaw 199,500 September 3-12 52,000 September 21 2,200 Jan. 18-22, 1943 6,000 April 19 - May 15 15,000 (In the ghetto there were over 100,000 Jews expelled from the counties of Grojec, Lowicz, Skierniewice, and Sochaczew-Blonie in February-March 1941.) August 19-20, 1942 Falenica 6,500 Otwock 7,000 Rembertow 1,800 Ludwisin 3,000 Radzymin 3,000 Wolomin 2,200 Jadow 700 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Garwolin County ------------------------------------------------------------------- September 27 Laskarzew 1,240 October 2 Parysow 3,440 Sobienie-Jeziory 3,680 Sobolew 1,640 Zelechow 10,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Minsk-Mazowiecki County ------------------------------------------------------------------- August 21-22 Minsk-Mazowiecki 6,120 September 15-27 Kaluszyn 6,000 Kolbiel 1,000 Mrozy Kuflew 1,000 Siennica 700 Stanislawow 700 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Siedlce County ------------------------------------------------------------------- August 22-24, September 26, November 30 Siedlce 11,700 August 22 Losice 5,500 Mordy 3,800 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sokolow-Wegrow County ------------------------------------------------------------------- September 22-25 Sokolow-Podlaski 5,800 Wegrow 8,300 Kosow-Lacki 1,100 Sterdyn 1,100 Stoczek 2,000 Excerpted from....---------------------------------------------- BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Files used for these news posts are available to anyone upon request. Send email to kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca and request oneb-txt.zip or oneb-txt.tar.Z - it will be uuencoded and sent to you as soon as I can get around to it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Other Warsaw reference works from our bibliography include: Czerniakow. `The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow', R. Hilberg, S. Staron, Friedman, Philip (ed). "Martyrs and Fighters: The Epic of the Warsaw Ghetto" Gutman, Yisrael. `The Jews of Warsaw 1939-1943,' Tel Aviv, 1977 Kurzman, Dan. "The Bravest Battle: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" Ringelblum, Emmanuel. "Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto" New York: McGraw Hill, 1958 CZERNIAKOW, Adam, 1880-1942. The Warsaw diary of Adam... 1979 GUTMAN, Israel. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943 :... 1982 KAPLAN, Chaim Aron, 1880- Scroll of agony; the Warsaw diary... 1965 KAPLAN, Chaim Aron, 1880- The Warsaw diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. 1973 KORCZAK, Janusz, 1878-1942. The Warsaw Ghetto memoirs of... 1979 RINGELBLUM, Emanuel, 1900- Notes from the Warsaw ghetto; the... 1958 The Warsaw ghetto in photographs : 206 views made in 1941. (Please obtain our bibliography for complete listings)