Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
35,1 (2007) 81-109
Keywords:
Majdanek (Concentration camp)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Libraries
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Archives
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Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Describes the procedure of prisoner death registration at Majdanek. The recording of deaths took place at several levels of the camp structure and was implemented differently for the various prisoner categories. Notes that death charts (instead of death certificates) for most of the prisoners were issued by an SS doctor, and that the times and causes of death (such as pneumonia, heart failure, etc.) were usually fictitious. Based on documents compiled in the camp itself and elsewhere, as well as on eyewitness testimonies, estimates the number of those who lost their lives in Majdanek at 78,000 (including 500 who perished during the evacuation of the camp in 1944), among them 59,000 Jews. Contends that previous estimates made by Łukaszkiewicz, Rajca, and other scholars, as well as those made at the Düsseldorf trial of 1975-81, must be dismissed as exaggerated.
Note:
English and Hebrew.
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A revised and abridged version of the article which appeared in Polish as "Ewidencja zgonów i śmiertelność więżniów KL Lublin" in "Zeszyty Majdanka" 23 (2005) 7-53.
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