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V.
Evacuation of the Jews
...
At
least in the area of the Reich the evacuation of the Jews has
taken the place of the emigration of the Jews. Following the
ban on Jewish emigration from Fall 1941 [the evacuation] was
prepared on a large scale and carried out to a far-reaching
extent throughout the area of the Reich in 1942. In the
balance sheet of Jewry (Bilanz des Judentums) it
appears as "Emigration."
According
to the figures of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshaptamp)
up to January 1, 1943, the following moves took place:
From
the Altreich** and Sudetenland 100,516 Jews
From
the Ostmark [Austria] 47,555 Jews
From
the Protectorate 69,677 Jews
Total
217,748 Jews
These
figures include Jews evacuated to the Old-Age Ghetto in
Theresienstadt.
The
total of these evacuations from the area of the Reich,
including the eastern territories, and beyond them in the area
of German control and influence in Europe, from October 1939
or later, and up to December 31, 1942, were as follows:
1.
Evacuation of Jews from Baden and the
Palatinate
(Pfalz) to France 6,504 Jews
2.
Evacuation of Jews from the Reich, including
the
Protectorate and the District of Bialystok
to
the East 170,642 "
3.
Evacuation of Jews from the Reich and the
Protectorate
to Theresienstadt 87,193 "
4.
Transportation of Jews from the eastern
provinces
to eastern Russia 1,449,692 Jews
[Numbers]
who passed through the camps
in
the Government-General 1,274,166 " Through the camps in
the Warthegau 145,301 "
5.
Evacuation of Jews from other countries:
France
(insofar as it was occupied before
November
10, 1942) 41,911 "
Netherlands
38,571 "
Belgium
16,886 "
Norway
532 "
Slovakia
56,691 "
Croatia
4,927 "
Total
evacuations (including Theresienstadt and
Special
Treatment Sonderbehandlung) 1,873,549 "
Without
Theresienstadt 1,786,356 "
6.
To this must be added, according to the
figures
of the Reich Security Main Office,
the
evacuation of 633,300 "
from
the Russian territories, including the
former
Baltic countries, from the start of
the
Eastern Campaign.
These
figures do not include the inmates of ghettos and
concentration camps.
The
evacuations from Slovakia and Croatia were carried out by
these states themselves.
VI.
The Jews in the Ghettos
These
include:
1.
The Old-Age Ghetto Theresienstadt to which were sent
altogether
87,193 Jews
of
these, from the Reich 47,471 "
(Ostmark
14,222)
of
these, from the Protectorate 39,722 "
The
total number of Jewish inmates at the beginning of the
year
1943 was: 49,392
of
these, German subjects 24,313
Protectorate
25,079
The
reduction in numbers was due mainly to deaths. In addition to Theresienstadt
there were a number of smaller Jewish old-age and invalid
homes within the area of the Reich, but these were not
considered either ghettos or evacuation centers.
2.
At the beginning of 1943 there were 87,180 Jews in the Lodz
Ghetto, of whom 83,133 were former Polish citizens.
3.
On December 31, 1942, the great majority of Jews in the Government-General
were housed in the remnants of ghettos.
The
figures given or estimated are:
District
No. of Jews
Cracow
37,000
Radom
29,400
Lublin
20,000 (estimate)
Warsaw
50,000
Lvov
161,514
Total
for Government-General 297,914***
NO-5194.
*
Prepared by Richard Korherr, head of the Statistics
Department in
Himmler's
office.
**
Germany before 1938.
***
The total number of Jews in these areas at the beginning of
the war
had
been about 2 million.
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