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Jun 1, 1942:
News of death camp killings becomes public for first time
On this day in 1942, a Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty
Brigade, makes public the news of the gassing of tens of
thousands of Jews at Chelmno, a death camp in Poland_almost seven
months after extermination of prisoners began.
A year earlier, the means of effecting what would become the
"Final Solution," the mass extermination of European Jewry, was
devised: 700 Jews were murdered by channeling gas fumes back into
a van used to transport them to the village of Chelmno, in
Poland. This "gas van" would become the death chamber for a total
of 360,000 Jews from more than 200 communities in Poland. The
advantage of this form of extermination was that it was silent
and invisible.
One month before the infamous Wannsee Conference of January 1942,
during which Nazi officials decided to address formally the
"Jewish question," the gas vans in Chelmno were used to kill up
to 1,000 Jews a day. The vans provided the "Final Solution" for
Adolf Eichmann and other Wannsee attendees. The mass gassings
were the most orderly and systematic means of eliminating
European Jewry. Eventually, more such vans were employed in other
parts of Poland. There was no thought of selecting out the "fit"
from the "unfit" for slave labor, as in Auschwitz. There was only
one goal: utter extermination.
On June 1, 1942, the story of a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum,
(who escaped from the Chelmno death camp after being forced to
bury bodies as they were thrown out of the gas vans), was
published in the underground Polish Socialist newspaper Liberty
Brigade. The West now knew the "bloodcurdling news... about the
slaughter of Jews," and it had a name_Chelmno.
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