Jankel Weirnik
A Year in Treblinka
1944 - Original English version:
Chapter VII
"The new construction job between Camp No. 1 and Camp No. 2 on which I worked was accomplished in a very short time. It turns out we were buliding ten additional gas-chambers, more spacious that the old ones with a capicty of about 150 square feet. As many as 1,000 to 1,200 persons could be crowded into one gas-chamber."
1979 - Reprinted Version (author had died in 1972):
Chapter VII
"The new construction job between Camp No. 1 and Camp No. 2 on which I worked was accomplished in a very short time. It turns out we were buliding ten additional gas-chambers, more spacious that the old ones, 7 by 7 square meter or about 50 square meters. As many as 1,000 to 1,200 persons could be crowded into one gas-chamber."
They..... just more than tripled the size of the chambers!
If the original was the truth, then the revised version is a lie. How can anyone claim otherwise?
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Also the polish version of Weirnik's book speaks clearly of 3,5 MILLION dead (p.14).
ReplyDeleteI think I've got it. At the Eichmann trial Wiernik testified that the gas chambers were 7x7. Perhaps he didn't remember what he wrote 16 years ago or he simply changed the story.
ReplyDeleteSo the new edition was changed to fit his testimony.