Den påhittade "utrotningen" av de ungerska judarna (maj 1944)

Timetable for the transport of a larger number of Hungarian Jews to work deployment in the eastern territories will be compiled in Vienna on 4-5 May. Presumably a large part of the transports will have to be channeled through Slovakia. Please notify us in case there are serious preconceptions.

Please do not go through the territory of Slovakia for the transportation of a larger number of Hungarian Jews for work deployment in the eastern territories if possible.

While an agreement was arrived at between Wesenmayer, German Minister and a representative of Sauckel on the one hand, and Prime Minister Sztojay, on the other, that Hungary would place 300,000 Jewish workers at the disposal of the Reich (who were to be selected by a mixed Hungarian-German committee), total deportation of all Jews was decided by Endre, Baky and Eichmann at a meeting in the Ministry of the Interior on the 14 April 1944.

The removal of 310,000 Jews from Zone I and II to Germany is scheduled to begin in mid-May, meaning that every day four transports of 3,000 Jews each are planned.

Currently, however – it is peculiar in this war – we first introduce 100,000, and later once more 100,000 male Jews from Hungary into concentration camps, with whom we build underground factories.

Ghettoization work in the Carpathian Mountains /Zone I/ completed these days. Around 200,000 Jews are gathered in 10 camps and ghettoes. In Siebenbürgen /Zone II/, the concentration of the Jews living in this region was initiated today. [...] On May 4, a timetable conference will take place in Vienna for these transports, where representatives of the Reichsbahn, the Security Police and the Hungarian police will participate.

By the end of the war, according to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, Hungarian Jewish males and females were found in 386 concentration and labor camps, as well as in labor units, where they had survived a real martyrdom. They were seen everywhere, from a few hundred in the labor units to tens of thousands in the ‘big’ camps.

According to the observations so far, about 1/3 of the deported Jews are able to work. They are immediately after their arrival in the camp Auschwitz distributed to the agencies of Gauleiter Sauckel, the Organisation Todt, etc.

In order to clarify the situation, the following describes the complete process from the arrival of the Hungarian Jewish prisoners to the train embarkation. After the arrival of the admissions in this concentration camp all civilian clothes are taken away from the prisoners and after a thorough delousing procedure these prisoners are fitted out with prison garb which is provided by the administration.

After the individual transports which arrived are clothed, they are transferred to the transit camp in Auschwitz II and taken over by the work leader Unterscharführer Olexius. He then prepares a receipt for the types of clothes and indicates with what pieces of clothing the admitted prisoners are provided. These receipts are submitted for review. The admitted stay several days, up to 2 to 3 weeks in the transfer camp. Because of the lack of sufficient quarters 1000 to 1200 inmates are accommodated in each barrack, which are normally only suited for 300 prisoners. This condition alone results in a serious contamination of the pieces of clothing. The inmates who are quartered in the transit camp are grouped into transports and placed in quarantine camps where they will stay for several days until their departure.

The clothing-department of the camp Auschwitz have clothed since May 16, 1944 until today about 57,000 inmates and prepared 48 transports with 45,132 prisoners for the departure, without receiving the least complaint until now.

During the reported time from June 26 to July 26, 1944 [...] average 2,500 Hungarian Jews ready for transportation in the camp in 3 blocks, they stay 3 – 10 days in the camp.

They were subjected to a thorough medical check-up each during the admission and during the departure and checked for lice. Daily fever- and lice-check ups, lice carrier delousing in in-camp disinfestation plant, clothes and laundry disinfected in steam boilers and impregnated with “lauseto”.

Those found seriously sick retransferred to BIIf or transferred to another camp.

On July 1, 1944 admission of 450 juvenile Hungarian Jews from BIId. [...]

Because too many prisoners were housed in the blocks, up to 1000, many had to sleep on the bare concrete floor or on humid earth ground, which consequently caused frequent colds and diarrheas. The youths in special quarantine in block 12 did not change their underwear for 10 weeks, the Hungarians in block 8 for 8 weeks. Since both groups did not belong to the same camp population, soap could not be distributed to them. Allocation of soap is urgently needed.

Because the prisoners of the construction section III have to be called to work at an accelerated speed, an actual quarantine is not performed. In order to avoid during a possible occurrence of epidemics longer delays in the work assignments, it is necessary to subdivide through fencing the camp into four sections . This way at least part of the inmates can further be deployed or evacuated in case of occurring epidemics.

Medical Treatment:

During the reported time 3,138 inmates were treated in the hospital. Of these:

Surgical Cases	        1426
Diarrhea	        327
Constipation	        253
Angina	                79
Diabetes	        4
Heart Condition	        25
Scabies	                62
Pneumonia	        75
Influenza	        136
Internal Disorders      268
Others	                449
Infections:	        -
Scarlet Fever	        5
Mumps	                16
Measles	                5
Erysipelas	        5

Den 31:a maj 1944 så existerade totalt 63 baracker i sektor BA III, men deporteringen av de ungerska judarna satte SS-ledningen i Auschwitz i en prekär situation. Man var helt oförberedda på det enorma inflödet av judar från Ungern, som skulle sättas i arbete överallt Tredje riket och ockuperade Östeuropa på order av Adolf Hitler [...], vilket innebar att sektor BA III och sektor B IIc i Birkenau konverterades till ett temporärt transitläger för ungerska judar som inte kunde registreras i lägret och som skulle skickas vidare till andra läger.

I samband med en genomgång av vattentillgången i Birkenau den 15:e juni 1944 så genomfördes en inspektion av de hygieniska omständigheterna i den nyligen ockuperade Sektor III i krigsfångelägret Birkenau. Den första transporten av fångar inhuserades den 9:e juni 1944. Just nu består den av 7000 kvinnliga (judiska) fångar. Vad gäller byggnader och hygien så är Sektor III på intet sätt lämplig för att inkvartera fångar, eftersom till och med de mest grundläggande sanitära faciliteterna saknas.

Enligt SDG SS-Oberscharführer Scherpe så bor 800-1000 fångar i inkvarteringsbarackerna. Taket på barackerna är ännu inte helt täckta med takfilt, och anslutande vägar i lägret är fortfarande under uppbyggnad. På grund av bristen på sängar så sover fångarna på golvet.

Som ett resultat av inkvarteringen av fångar i Sektor III innan färdigställandet av byggnadsprojektet så finns en överhängande risk för utbrott av epidemier på grund av bristen på grundläggande hygieniska nödvändigheter.

När ryssarna närmade sig Krakow och ljudet från gevären blev allt starkare leddes vi bort från Plaszow. Vi sattes i järnvägsvagnar, med 130 fångar i en vagn. Under resan stannade vi upprepade gånger längs spåret, vilket bara hade till syfte att utsätta oss för solens brännande strålar utan skydd, och att öka vår törst ännu mer. Naturligtvis hade vi varken mat eller vatten för resan. Så kom det sig att samma sträcka som vi hade tillryggalagt på fyra timmar på utresan, tog oss tre hela dagar på återresan. Vi kom alltså tillbaka till Auschwitz, där vi tillbringade fem veckor med att göra ingenting, svälta och stå i upprop. Efter denna tid sattes jag återigen på en arbetstransport, denna gång till Oederan nära Chemnitz, där det fanns en patronfabrik.

Efter sex veckor deporterades vi till Auschwitz. Trots att urvalen gjordes mycket ofta i Auschwitz, och vi varje gång befanns arbetsdugliga, placerades vi inte på någon arbetstransport, vilket var desto mindre förståeligt, eftersom det under de sex månader som vi tillbringade i Auschwitz avgick många transporter till olika arbetsläger. Vi användes inte ens för internt lägerarbete, utan fick bara stå upprop från halv tre på morgonen till åtta på morgonen, och från fyra på eftermiddagen till åtta på kvällen, svälta och utstå de mest varierande bestraffningar. Så gick det sex månader tills vi äntligen blev utvalda för en arbetstransport, som dock bara var liten - 250 kvinnor och flickor - och hade begärts av en ammunitionsfabrik. Denna ammunitionsfabrik låg i Kratzau (nära Reichenberg) i Böhmen.

We arrived in Auschwitz in three days. At the station of Auschwitz Dr Mengele did the selections. I got separated from my parents and siblings and was sent to the right side. They took us to the bath, cut our hair off, gave me cheap clothes and a bad pair of shoes, and put me in Camp C. I stayed here for 3 months. [...] At the end of August, they took us from Auschwitz to Liebenstadt, where we worked for an ammunition plant.

Three days later we arrived in Auschwitz. […] Three months later there was a selection and the stronger ones (including myself) were taken away with a labourer’s transport. After two days of travel we arrived in Salzwedel. We were working in an ammunition factory in Salzwedel.

We arrived in Auschwitz on May 10. […] Later she suggested that I should leave the camp with a transport. She put me on a transport in September and I departed along with the others. Luckily I could stay together with my relatives all along. We were given a lot of food for the trip, and there were only 25 women in each freight car, therefore one day later we arrived at Weisswasser in good condition, escorted by SS soldiers.

We arrived in Birkenau after three days of travel. When we got off train they told us to leave beyond our belongings since they would carry them to our place. We did believe them. As we proceeded right away they separated me from my husband and son. They took me into the baths where they cut our hair off, seized our clothes, and gave us a long garment in return but nothing else. This was how we got into Camp A. Here, in the first block, ten of us slept on a sleeping place, although we could hardly sit so many on this little narrow place. We stayed here for seven weeks. We did not work at all but lined up for roll calls three times a day. There were several selections; once according to the alphabet, another time according to localities, always by chance.

Enligt nederländska Röda korset så skickades totalt 8067 fångar till Auschwitz i åldersgruppen 18-50 från Westerbork mellan perioden 15:e juli till 24:e augusti 1942, varav 4507 var män och 3560 var kvinnor. Enligt Czechs siffror så registrerades totalt 7620 av dessa judar, varav 5176 var män och 2444 var kvinnor, eller ca. 94,5% av Röda korsets siffror. Czechs siffror indikerar att betydligt fler män än dem i åldersgruppen 18-50 registrerades (ca. ~15% fler). Men på basis av transportlistan för tåget från Westerbork den 16:e oktober 1942 så framgår att 836 fångar, eller 49%, ingick i åldersgruppen 18-50. Därmed borde dessa judar (plus möjligen ca. 15% fler) ha registrerats i lägret, men Czech påstår istället att enbart 116 kvinnor registrerades i lägret, alltså 6,8% av totalen. Är det verkligen ett trovärdigt scenario att tyskarna, återigen, registrerade en handfull kvinnor och gasade samtliga män, varav nästan 1000 ingick i en åldersgrupp som tidigare registrerades som arbetsdugliga till nästan 95%? En mer trovärdig förklaring är så klart att majoriteten av fångarna släpptes av i helt andra läger, vilket Röda korsets rapporter tydligt indikerar.