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facsimile transmission from DAVID IRVING
[September
1989]
There follows my translation of the Tass statement of which I supplied you the Russian original with my letter:
Red
Cross Agency.
The Names of 130,000 Oswiecim prisoners Established.
“Moscow, September 21. /TASS/
The fate of people of many countries — victims of the Second World War — is to be determined from the personnel records of 130,000 prisoners cf
Oswiecim and the death lists of this concentration camp. Because these papers have now turned up in the Soviet archives. In 46 large file binders the details were minutely recorded day by day. Death records were filled in for over 74,000 people giving their precise birthdate and parents’ names as well.
Tass correspondent Valentina
Fatyukhina reports on this. The head of the
Soviet Red Cross tracing service will according to
Valentina Fatyukhina hand over these records to representatives of the International Red Cross. lt had been known for some time that these records were preserved in the Soviet Union — in fact since
1964 when the trial of concentration camp guards from this camp took place in Frankfurt am Main.
A
Soviet representative produced several of these files on that occasion. Valentina Fatyukhina reports further that when Europe was liberated from
Fascism by the Soviet Army these documentary materials ended up in the Soviet Union and landed in various archives. This obviously impeded the searoh for them.
Valentina Fatyukhina spared no trouble in her search. She directed countless inquiries and applications to official quarters.
But at that time many archives remained closed.
Only in the last eighteen months, as access to the archives was permitted, were these records uncovered. Nobody suspected the presence of 130,000
personnel cards in the archives. The International
Red Cross intends to exploit these records as rapidly as possible.”
Rotes
Kreuz
Die Namen von 130.000
Gefangenen aus Oswiezim wurden festgestellt
Moskau, 21. September.
/TASS/ Das Schicksal von Menschen vieler
Länder - Opfer des Zweiten Weltkrieges soll durch persönliche Papiere der 130.000
Gefangenen von Oswiezim und der Gefallenenliste in diesem Konzentrationslager festgestellt werden.
Diese Papiere sind nämlich jetzt in sowjetischen Archiven aufgetaucht. In 46
großen Folienbändern, die minuziös
Tag für Tag sichergestellt wurden.
Es wurden
Sterbeakten von über 74.000 Menschen mit genauem Geburtsdatum und der Namen der Eltern ausgestellt.
Darüber berichtete die Korrespondentin von TASS, Valen-tina
Fatjuchina. Der Leiter des sowjetischen
Roten-Kreuz-Suchdienstes wird diese Unterlagen, so
Valentina Fatjuchina, den Vertretern des
Internationa-len Roten Kreuzes vorlegen.
Das diese Unterlagen in der Sowjetunion aufbewahrt wer-den, war schon länger bekannt, und zwar seit 1964, als in
Frankfurt am Main der Prozeß gegen Wachleute dieses Konzentrationslagers stattfand. Damals legte ein sowjetischer Vertreter viele dieser
Folienbänder vor. Valentina Fatjuchina berichtete weiter, daß bei der Befreiung
Europas vom Faschismus durch die Sowjetarmee, diese
Materialien in die UdSSR gelangten und dort in verschiedene Archive landeten.
Dies erschwerte die
Suche natürlich ungemein.
Viel Kraft kostete die
Suche auch Valentina Fatjuchina. Sie richtete unzählige Anfragen und Anträge an offiziel-le Stellen. - Doch zu jener Zeit blieben viele Archive verschlossen. Erst in den letzten 18
Monaten, als der Zugang zu den Archiven erlaubt wurde, entdeckte man diese Unterlagen. Niemand vermutete die Anwesenheit von 130.000
Registrationskarten in den Archiven.
Das
Internationale Rote Kreuz beabsichtigt, die
Ausarbei-tung dieser Unterlagen so schnell wie möglich in Angriff zu nehmen.
Wiener Zeitung,
November 1989
Rotkreuz-Suchdienst in der UdSSR
Einblick in Auschwitz-Listen
G e n f — Die Sowjetunion gibt dem
Internationalen Komitee vom Roten Kreuz (IKRK) jetzt
Einsicht in die Totenlisten des von den Nazis im Zweiten
Weltkrieg in Polen eingerichteten Konzentrationslager
Auschwitz.Wie die Leiterin der Osteuropaabteilung der
Suchdienstzentrale des IKRK, Marion Scheinberger, am Freitag in Genf mitteilte, verzeichnen die in 46
Büchern enthaltenen Listen die Namen von 74.000 in
Auschwitz ermordeter oder gestorbener Personen. Sie sollen vom Internationalen Suchdienst des IKRK ausgewertet werden.Mitarbeiter des Suchdienstes haben nach Angaben von
Frau Scheinberger im Oktober [1989] in Moskau begonnen, die Totenlisten auf Mikrofilm aufzunehmen. (APA, Reuter)
Published
in The Spectator, London, November 25, 1989
How
many died?Sir:
SO
FAR only
The Spectator (Diary, 7 October) and the Evening Standard have had the integrity to print what TASS, the Soviet
News Agency, reported on 21 September: that the Auschwitz
Death Books, just discovered in Moscow archives, reveal that 74,000 people died in that camp. (The Evening
Standard pulled this report out of its later editions, who knows under what pressure?)As your columnist points out, I commented to the newspaper: “It is certainly good news that the death roll at Auschwitz was nothing like as bad as has been feared.” The figure of 74,000 is, of course, bad enough: nearly twice as many as died in the July 1943 RAF attack on
Hamburg.Some critics have reasoned that perhaps not all the Auschwitz victims were formally registered. Working last week in the archives of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in
New York however, I came across, and photocopied, the order from the overall head of the SS concentration camp system directing that detailed records of Jewish deaths were to be kept.Since Professor Arno Mayer of
Princeton, himself a Jew, has now concluded in a book that most deaths in Auschwitz were from what he called
‘natural causes’, the murder figures may well be even lower than 74,000.David
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