Pages from Witold’s report of 1943

It does not include, however, huge numbers of people brought here with the aim of prompt depriving them of their lives which was being done a few kilometres from the camp – in so called ‘Birkenau’ and near the Auschwitz branch – the camp in Rajsk where whole transports of people delivered here by trains and trucks were being gassed; sometimes a few thousand a day; their total number calculated in August of 1942 exceeded 800 000* and in March of 1943 amounted to more than a million and a half people. The majority of them were Jews but there were also Czechs, Germans and others.** Footnotes for "Raport Witolda" (in:) Adam Cyra, "Biuletyn Towarzystwa Opieki nad Oświęcimiem" 1991, No. 12, pp. 76-77. * Overstated numbers ** False information, after the selection, only Jews were annihilated in gas chambers