Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,1 (1997) 60-78
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Contends that in late 1941-early 1942 the Nazis planned to turn the labor camp in Mogilev into an extermination camp designed to annihilate Jews not only from the Soviet territories, but also from the West. Orders were given to a firm dealing with the construction of the murder facilities. Himmler's visit to Mogilev in October 1941 may be attributed to these plans. In order not to overstrain the railway system in Belorussia, it was decided to transport the Jews to Mogilev by sea. Technical difficulties (a lengthy period in which the rivers were frozen, and lack of boats) frustrated these plans; the extermination camps were established in Poland. The prisoners who were sent to Mogilev up to this time, from Belorussia and Russia, were shot at the end of 1941-beginning of 1942. See the response by Jürgen Hensel ["Biuletyn Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego" 185-186 (1998) 31-33, in Polish] in which he states that this article is very important for research on the Holocaust, because for many researchers in various countries it seemed to be obvious that the extermination camps were established in Poland because of Polish antisemitism. But there is no proof that the Nazis wanted from the beginning to place the camps in Poland. Mogilev could have become the symbol of the Holocaust.
Description / Table of Contents:
Hensel, Jürgen. Mohylew czy Auschwitz? Co zdarzylo się 12 grudnia 1941 roku. [A response to Gerlach.] BŻIH 185-186 (1998) 31-33.
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