https://codoh.com/library/document/evid ... st-part-3/It would indeed appear that the transports in May and July 1942 were not the only convoys of Polish Jews to reach Bobruisk. In 1993 the American-Jewish writer Joseph J. Preil interviewed Jack Spiegel, born in Łódź in 1918. According to Preil’s summary of the interview, Spiegel was deported in October 1942 from Warsaw to Minsk, and from there sent on to Bobruisk, where he was detained in a camp until March 1944:
By October 1942 the great evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto had ceased. However, the last Jewish transport from Warsaw in 1942 departed on 21 September (carrying 2,196 Jews). According to mainstream historians these Jews were gassed at Treblinka. Could it be that Jack Spiegel was part of the 21 September 1942 convoy but erroneously remembered the departure as having taken place in October? It seems very unlikely, on the other hand, that Spiegel would have erroneously recalled a May or July transport as having taken place in October.He remembers a ‘horrible welcome.’ The officer said, ‘If you work, all will be fine. If not…’ He took a pistol and killed a person. After two months in Bobruisk, only one hundred of the three hundred men who had been in his bunk remained alive. The others were regularly murdered, especially on Sundays. […]. In that camp, only ninety-one people were left alive from the original three thousand.
After Bobruisk, JS moved quickly from camp to camp: ‘Minsk – a very short stay; Majdanek – one week; Bedzin – April until November or December 1944; Mielec – two weeks; Wieliczka – two weeks.’ […]. JS was then moved from Poland to Germany: ‘Flossenbürg – two weeks; Hersbruck – summer 1944 until March 1945; Dachau – until liberated by Americans on April 29, 1945.’
The actual interview can be found here:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504781
The relevant part starts at 37:45, and you can confirm that the description is indeed accurate.
Now yes, he doesn't technically say he went through one of the Reinhard camps, but it's completely reasonable to think he did get transited through Treblinka to Minsk. That is the default assumption unless it can be shown otherwise. Given the surrounding evidence and timing of a train sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka (he likely confused September and October), the burden of proof is now on the orthodoxy to prove he didn't go through it.
