Nobody had any doubts about Auschwitz at that time.
580,000 Jews Perish in a Camp; Nazis Use Jewish Women for Sterilization Experiments
December 13, 1943
Jewish women interned in the Oswiecim [Auschwitz] camp in occupied Poland are being used by the Germans for “experimental sterilization” and for “artificial breeding,” a report reaching here from the underground movement in Poland reveals.
The report states that 580,000 Jews have perished in the Oswiecim camp from the day it was opened until the middle of this year. There were still 80,000 Jews left there this past summer, most of them brought to Poland from other countries.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
60,000 Greek Jews Murdered in Oswiecim “death Camp,” Polish Report Discloses
March 23, 1944
The 60,000 Greek Jews who were deported from their homeland to “unknown destinations” in the Spring and Summer of last year perished in the gas chambers of the dread Oswiecim “death camp” in Poland, it was disclosed today by the Polish Ministry of Information here. Most of the Greek Jews had been residents of Salonika or Athens.
The Polish report asserted that more than 500,000 persons have been murdered at Oswiecim since its establishment. Of these, the great majority were Jews, including, in addition to the Greek Jews, 50,000 from Czechoslovakia, 60,000 from Holland, Belgium and France, and tens of thousands of Polish Jews.
The Oswiecim camp has three crematoriums capable of consuming 10,000 bodies daily, the report asserts. The executions in the gas chambers take about fifteen minutes; immediately after which the bodies are taken to a crematorium. Because of a shortage of gas, Jews who were not yet asphyxiated were frequently placed in the crematorium, the report adds.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
