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(text) [ H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine ] Number of “survivor accounts” in late 1950s Reply-To: H-NET List for History of the Holocaust < [email protected] > Sender: H-NET List for History of the Holocaust < [email protected] > Sun, 10 May 1998 Author: Alan Jacobs Idea, A Journal of Social Issues http://www.bravenewweb.com/idea e-mail [email protected] HENRY Greenspan wrote: In his essay, “I Was Not There,” included in Berel Lang ‘s collection,

Writing and the Holocaust (1988), Raul Hilberg states: “Sometime during the second half of the late 1950s, the historian and bibliographer Philip Friedman , a survivor himself, told me that survivors’ accounts were getting out of hand, that they were too numerous to list. At last count there were 18,000. That was thirty years ago.” I am assuming Friedman/Hilberg are referring to “accounts” of all types — published, unpublished, all forms and formats, etc.

Still, it strikes me as an extraordinary number. Can anyone offer data that supports or challenges the numerical claim? (I realize that Hilberg’s phrase, “getting out of hand,” lends itself to editorial comment, but, personally, I’m just asking about the number.) Thanks, Hank Greenspan U-Michigan AT one time there were 5,000 survivors of Auschwitz alone in Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The staff at the Auschwitz Museum, reports 70,000 survived Auschwitz/Birkenau/Monowitz.

There were many, many transports sent west in the fall and early winter of 1944, to Dora, Dachau, Belsen etcThese journeys were even more terrible than the ones that had brought people to Auschwitz in the first place; no food, water, inmates extremely weak from months, and sometimes even years, of camp existence. Let’s say another 200,000 — 300,000 from other camps survivedThis is still a small number if one thinks of the 11,000,000 people murdered in the camps.

I think another way to find out how many survivors there are/were in the States alone is to contact the people who run the Gathering of Survivors every year. Alan Jacobs Author: Allen Glicksman [email protected] Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 If one is asking how many survived, rather than the number of accounts, then an international count was done a year ago for the legal action against the Swiss.

I did the estimate for the US and calculated that there are between 140,000-160,000 survivors living here. There are about 350,000 in Israel. I don’t remember the other numbers, but can look the table up. Allen Glicksman [H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine] Send comments and questions to H-Net Webstaff