A report describing the annihilation of Jews in the “German extermination camp” of Tremblinka in Poland estimates that 2,764,000 Jewish men, women and children were killed in this camp alone. The report is published in the Moscow Polish-language newspaper “Nowe Widnokregi.”
Written by Samuel Rajzman, a Polish Jew, who succeeded in escaping from Tremblinka, the report says that among the executed Jews were 1,500,000 from Poland, 1,000,000 from Russian territory which was occupied by the Germans; 120,000 from Germany; 100,000 from Czechoslovakia; 30,000 from Austria and 14,000 from Bulgaria.
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