I soon lost my comparatively comfortable job [October 1942?] with the Aufräumungskommando, and as punishment was transferred to Birkenau, where I spent one and a half years. On 7 April 1944 I succeeded in escaping with my companion. A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF JEWS EXTERMINATED AT BIRKENAU FROM APRIL 1942 TO APRIL 1944, ACCORDING TO COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN (by the two escapees): Poland (shipped by trucks) | c. 300,000 | Poland (shipped by trains) | 600,000 | Holland | 100,000 | Greece | 45,000 | France | 150,000 | Belgium | 50,000 | Germany | 60,000 | Yugoslavia, Italy, Norway | 50,000 | Lithuania | 50,000 | Bohemia, Moravia, Austria | 30,000 | Slovakia | 30,000 | Various camps of foreign Jews in Poland | 300,000 | TOTAL | c. 1,765,000 |
Source of English translation: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Record Group 226, Records of the Office of Strategic Services, Entry 19, Box 119, File XL 8883.
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