Executive Office of the President War Refuge Board Washington, D. C.
Page 33.
German Extermination Camps—Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Careful estimate of the number of Jews gassed in Birkenau between April, 1942 and April, 1944 (according to countries of origin).
Poland (transported by truck)...... approximately
Poland (transported by train)...... approximately
Holland ............................„ approximately
Greece ............................. approximately
France ............................. approximately
Belgium ............................ approximately
Germany ............................ approximately
Yugoslavia, Italy and Norway........ approximately
Lithuania .......................... approximately
Bohemia, Moravia and Austria........ approximately
Slovakia ........................... approximately
Various camps for foreign Jews in
300.000
600.000 100,000
45.000 150,000
50.000
60.000
50.000
50.000
30.000
30.000
Poland
approximately 300,000
approximately 1,765,000
Extract from a report on the extermination camps, estimating that 1,765,000 Jews from 13 countries were gassed at Birkenau, 1942-1944
Date: November 1944
Literal Title: German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: L-22
Citation: IMT (page 1500)
HLSL Item No.: 450986
Notes:The publication date is stated in the Blue Set, vol. 37, p. 433. The text in English is followed by one in German.
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Document Summary
L-22: Copy of three reports of eyewitnesses on German Extermination Camps, covering memorandum of War Refugee Board which made the reports public, and telegram dated 8 July 1944, summarizing the reports, to the Secretary of State from American Legation, Bern, which forwarded the reports to Washington
Copy of three reports of eyewitnesses on German Extermination Camps, covering memorandum of War Refugee Board which made the reports public, and telegram dated 8 July 1944 summarizing the reports to the Secretary of State from American Legation Bern which forwarded the reports to Washington
L-22: Apr. 1944. Reports on Auschwitz and Birkenau by two Slovak Jews who escaped and by a Polish major, published in the United States by the War Refugee Board, Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Apr. 1944. Reports on Auschwitz and Birkenau by two Slovak Jews who escaped and by a Polish major, published in the United States by the War Refugee Board, Executive Office of the President of the United States.