- Headline
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Death Toll
- Sub-Headline
- Of Jews Is Reported
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, July 4, 1944
- Historical Event
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First Public Reports on ‘Extermination Camp’ at Auschwitz
This database includes 694 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 13
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- New York, July 3—(AP)—A Geneva dispatch to the New York Times today said 1,715,000 Jews had been put to death by the Germans in Upper Silesian "international camps" at Auschwitz and Birkenau in two years ended April 15, 1944.
The report was attributed to information reaching the International Church Movement Ecumenical Refugee Commission of Geneva and the Fluchtlingshilfe of Zurich.
Victims were said to have come from these countries: Poland, 900,000; The Netherlands, 100,000; Greece, 45,000; France, 150,000; Belgium, 50,00[sic]; Germany, 60,000; Yugoslavia, Italy and Norway, 50,000; Bohemia, Moravia and Austria, 30,000; Slovakia, 30,000, and foreign Jews from Polish concentration camps, 300,000.
Yet another 120,000 Jews from Hungary were said to have been killed or died on the way to Upper Silesia. The Ecumenical Commission report said the Hungarian Jews were subjected to "malicious, fiendish, inhuman brutality." The Times story reported many were worked to death.
Execution halls at Auschwitz and Birkenau were said to be fake bathing establishments capable of dispatching 2,000 to 8,000 Jews daily.
"Prisoners were led into cells and ordered stripped for bathing," the Times dispatch said, "then cyanide gas was said to have been released, causing death in three to five minutes. The bodies are burned in crematories that hold eight to 10 at a time. At Birkenau there are about 50 such furnaces. They were opened March 12, 1943, by a large party of Nazi chiefs who witnessed the disposal of 8,000 Jews from 9 a. m. to 7:30 p. m., according to the report." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Jan O.
- Location of Research
- Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com)
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Swiebocka, Teresa, ed. Auschwitz: A History in Photographs. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1993.
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