Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,1-2 (1999) 85-118
Keywords:
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Based on a comparison of several sources along with original research, concludes that the number of Jewish victims at Bełżec was far greater than the generally accepted figure of 600,000. Combining monthly figures of transportations to Bełżec between February-December 1942, when this death camp operated, with the figures for 1943 for the extermination of Jews in the Galician District at Auschwitz, Sobibór, and Treblinka (listed on pp. 89-104), arrives at a total number of victims of 1,012,342 (of whom 800,555 were killed at Bełżec). A response by Dieter Pohl and Peter Witte, "The Number of Victims of Bełżec Extermination Camp: A Faulty Reassessment" ["East European Jewish Affairs" 31 (2001) 15-22], states that evidence indicates no more than 600,000 victims. The view that the vast majority of Jewish victims perished in extermination camps is outdated. Half the victims died in massacres, labor camps, and ghettos, and en route to the extermination camps. Pp. 23-25 contain a rejoinder by O'Neil.
Description / Table of Contents:
Pohl, Dieter; Witte, Peter. The number of victims of Belzec extermination camp; a faulty reassessment. Ibid. 31,1 (2001) 15-22.
Description / Table of Contents:
O'Neil, Robin. Belzec; towards a constructive debate. Ibid. 23-25.
DOI:
10.1080/13501679908577894
URL:
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