Witness |
Date |
No. of pyres |
Bodies per pyre |
Pyre height, m |
Overall number of burned bodies |
Comments |
| Leonid Kivovich Ostrovskij | 12.11.1943 | 25-30 | 2500-3000 | 2 - 2.5 | ||
| Jakov Andreevich Stejuk (Shtejn) | 12.11.1943 | no less than 10 | about 5000 | up to 4 | ||
| Stejuk | 15.11.1943 | no less than 10 | about 5000 | "I can't tell about all the corpses, because
I have seen the corpses only where I have worked personally…" Says
that in his presence about 45000 corpses have been dug out and burned. |
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| Semyon Borisovich Berlyant | 16.11.1943 | about up to 3000 | about 70000? | It is not clear whether Berlyant's number signifies
the overall number of bodies burnt or only the number of disinterred bodies
which have been burnt. Separately he mentions that gas vans brought more
corpses. |
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| Isak Moisejevich Brodskij | 11 or 12.1943 | 70000 | ||||
| Vladislav Frantsevich Kuklya | 04.02.1944 | 70-80 | from 2000 to 4000 and more | up to 4 | 95-100000 | |
| Iosif Jakovlevich Doliner | 04.02.1944 | up to 2000 | up to 2 | about 100000 | ||
| Kuklya | 01.03.1944 | 70-80 | 2500; in some 3-4000 | 90-95000 | ||
| Vladimir Jurjevich Davydov | 09.11.1944 | about 75 | 3000? | 10-12 m? | 70000 in mass graves? | Information from the book on Treblinka by Holocaust deniers Mattogno and
Graf. It is probably correct, although at present the author cannot verify
the primary source. The height of 10-12 m stands in contrast with
Davydov's later testimonies. It cannot be excluded that this is the
mistake not by Davydov, but by the person who wrote down his testimony
(maybe not 10-12 m were meant, but rather 10-12 layers of
wood/bodies). Mattogno himself points out another mistake, probably by
secretary: "The word "August" appears in the text, which however is an
obvious error. Four lines later September is mentioned in connection with
the escape of the prisoners." As for the number of bodies, Sonderkommandos
say that not only the bodies from the graves were burnt, but also corpses
of gas vans' victims and corpses which the Nazis brought from other
localities. |
| Ostrovskij | 1944 | up to 2500 | ||||
| Davydov | 1945 | 2000-3000 | ||||
| Davydov | 1946 | Davydov says that the pyres were as high as a 2-storied house. |
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| Davydov | 09.02.1967 | 50-60 | about 2000 | up to 4 | about 125000 | |
| Jakov Abramovich Kaper | 13.02.1967 | about 120000 | ||||
| David Iosifovich Budnik | 14.02.1967 | up to 2000 | 120-125000 | |||
| Zyama (Zakhar) Abramovich Trubakov | 14.02.1967 | up to 2000-2500 | about 125000 | |||
| Budnik | 22.05.1980 | 55-60 | no less than 2000 | no less than 120000 | Budnik explicitly says: "Here we count also
the corpses of those murdered in gas vans and
also those brought in and shot in August-September 1943. |
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| Kaper | 23.05.1980 | no less than 60 | no less than 2000 | no less than 120000 | ||
| Trubakov | 28.05.1980 | about 60 | 2000 and more | no less than 120000 | ||
| Stejuk | 11.06.1980 | up to 60 | no less than 2000 | more than 100000 | It is probable that in all these years SKs have come
to some sort of consensus about the number of pyres and victims. However,
in the protocol it is written that "according to my personal observations
… there were up to 60 furnaces". It cannot be excluded that the words
"personal observations" were added by interrogators to "sharpen"
the testimonies for the court. These words are also to be found in several
other SK testimonies given in 1980. |
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| Kaper | 1992 or 1993 | Kaper describes the first pyres as being about 2.5
to 3 m high, containing 2500-3000 corpses. |
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| Budnik | 1992 or 1993 | about 60 | more than 2000 | different sizes, not less than 3 | ||
| Trubakov | 1990s | exactly 3000 | 127000 | |||
| Mikhail Fyodorovich Matvejev | 2000 | about 100 | ||||