- Headline
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MASS MURDER OF JEWS IN POLAND IS CHARGED
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, November 24, 1942
- Historical Event
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Nazi Plan to Kill All Jews Confirmed
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- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- LONDON, Nov. 24—(AP)—The Polish government-in-exile asserted today that Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Gestapo chief, had ordered the extermination of one-half of the Jewish population of Poland by the end of this year and that 250,000 had been killed through September under that program.
"According to information leaking from the German labor office (Arbeitsamt), only 40,000 Jews are to remain in the Warsaw ghetto—only thoroughly skilled workers to be employed in the German war industry," a government statement said.
"The most convincing proof of the dwindling numbers in the ghetto lies in the fact that for September, 1942, 130,000 ration cards were printed; for October, the number issued was only 40,000."
The statement said that those marked for extermination at any time are "driven to a square where old people and cripples are segregated, taken to a cemetery and shot.
"The remainder," it said, "are loaded into freight cars, 150 to a car intended for forty. The floor of the car is sprinkled with a thick layer of lime or chlorine-sprinkled water. The doors of the cars are sealed. Sometimes the train starts immediately. Other times it waits on a siding for days.
"The people are packed so thickly that those who die of suffocation remain in the crowd side by side with those still living. Half of the people arrive dead at the destination. Those surviving are sent to special camps at Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. Once there they are mass-murdered." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jennifer G.
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Bibliography
Feingold, Henry L., Bearing Witness: How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Gurock, Jeffrey S., ed. America, American Jews, and the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Laqueur, Walter. The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth About Hitler’s “Final Solution.” New York: H. Holt, 1998.
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