Those are later transports in 1943, with known selections.
There isn't a problem with the principle in general, since there were selections for the Schmelt camps at Cosel in 1942 before transports reached Auschwitz, as was rapidly established by postwar investigations. We also can see selections at Lublin for Majdanek with transports then being sent on to Sobibor in mid-1942, and selections at Sobibor for nearby ZALfJ of the Wasserwirtschaftsinspektion. Also a few selections for workers for Treblinka I taken from transports to Treblinka in 1942. The practice increased in 1943 with more selections, including of a Treblinka transport from the Warsaw ghetto uprising, with a small number (hundreds) sent on to Majdanek.
The question is whether this was done on a more widespread basis from other transports in especially the summer and autumn of 1942.
You can see for yourself in the USHMM Encyclopedia vol II - downloadable in full at Project Muse open access - how selections for Skarzysko-Kamienna generally worked; search for Kamienna as the z has a diacritic which won't copy easily. 128 hits for Kamienna generally confirm what is apparent from Felicja Karaj's Death Comes in Yellow, which reconstructed the 'stocking up' of Skarzysko-Kamienna with selections in the spring and summer of 1942,
before whole counties were deported to Treblinka.
https://muse.jhu.edu/resource_group/59
One example prior to the ghetto entry for Skarzysko-Kamienna, is for Skarysew, Kreis Radom-Land
In the summer of 1942, young able- bodied Jews were registered for forced labor; about 50 young Jewish men were sent to a labor camp in Radom, and others were sent to the Skar{ysko-Kamienna labor camp. In the late summer of 1942, some Jewish partisans were active in the area around Skaryszew, sabotaging German vehicles and railway tracks.
The Germans transferred all the residents of the Skaryszew ghetto to Szydłowiec on August 18, 1942. The Jews gathered
in Szydłowiec were deported from there to the extermination camp in Treblinka in two large transports on September 23
and 25, 1942.
This is a typical example of a smaller town being transferred to a larger ghetto, Szydlowiec was also in Kreis Radom-Land.
Reading the entry for Szydlowiec (p.332), one sees that the September 23 and 25 1942 deportations went apparently direct to Treblinka (not noted is the breakout of some deportees from the train), with a remnant group of 600 yielding a small contingent for Skarzysko *after* the Treblinka transports had left. In November 1942, after the remnants were transferred or killed, a 'second ghetto' was authorised to entice Jews out of hiding. In January 1943 there was a split action affecting the 5,000 Jews who sought refuge there; 1000 were sent to Skarzysko and the rest to Treblinka.
If you google for Szydlowiec Skarzysko Kamienna railway route, you will swiftly see that Skarzysko is due south of Szydlowiec, 14km by road, the train journey today taking very little time. It was thus in the wrong direction entirely for a drop-off en route to Treblinka, or indeed anywhere to the east. We will come back to Szydlowiec as it shows up in a Fahrplananordnung.
A drop-off for Skarzysko would make sense for more westerly counties and cities in Distrikt Radom, but there aren't any unloadings reported for the municipalities of Kielce and Czestochowa, as examples. Both had labour camps locally for Jews held back from deportation.
So yes, we see on Fahrplananordung Nr 566 that the Włoszczowa transport was routed Kielce-Skarzysko-Radom-Deblin-Lukow-Siedlce-Treblinka. This isn't terribly helpful, as there had already been a selection for Skarzysko with two earlier transports before the September deportation; the ghetto as a whole numbered 4,279 registered in February 1942, with only a few hundred brought in from nearby communities without ghettos prior to deportation.
Sedziszow, whose deportation is outlined in Fahrplananordnung Nr 587, went the same route, and hadn't seen selections for Skarzysko earlier. But Sedziszow wasn't very big - about 400 inhabitants of the ghetto, the transport included the ghettos of Szczekociny (1300 minus two earlier selections for Skarzysko and Brieg) and Wodzisław (3800), Sedziszow was the railhead.
The return transport was to then go Szydlowiec-Radom-Deblin-Siedlce-Treblinka; and after that Kozienice-Bakowiec (nearby) - Deblin-Lukow-Siedlce-Treblinka. So the subsequent two major deportations (Arad has Szydlowiec at 10,000 and Kozienice at 13,000, subtract shootings, small labour crews but also fugitives and evaders from these numbers) went nowhere near Skarzysko, or indeed near to any realistic labour camp drop-off point, since Radom had its workers already and lots of survivors, who don't seem to be reporting any drop-offs, ditto for Deblin-Irena which had one of the longest lasting ZALfJs and thus also lots of survivors.
Czestochowa (Fahrplananordnung Nr 594, 21 September 1942) went Czestochowa-Piotrkow-Koluszki-Skierniewice-Warsaw-Malkinia-Treblinka. The Piotrkow ghetto was liquidated a few weeks later with only 2-3000 remaining, these survivors yielded a Skarzysko contingent in early 1943. Koluszki, Kreis Tomaschow, was likewise liquidated in October 1942 with no labour camp left behind. Kreis Skierniewice had been made entirely
judenrein in March 1941. There was a correction issued mentioning Lochow, which was a village ghetto in Kreis Sokolow, i.e. very close to Treblinka, and which was deported at the same time (25 September 1942), and Sadowne, a village in Węgrów county, in the war part of Kreis Sokolow, where there was evidently no ghetto.
The fate of smaller labour camps shows up a lot in the encyclopedia entries, fitting with earlier surveys (the 1979 Polish encyclopedia and the study by Josef Marszalek). USHMM Encyclopedia vol VI when it appears will add more detail and confirmation.
Marta Woźniak, ‘ “And the Earth Was Still Moving…” The Massacre of Jews in Szczeglacin in Eyewitness’ Testimonies’, Holocaust: Studies and Materials (2010), 451-465 – a forced labour camp near Korczew, Siedlce county, Distrikt Warschau, wiped out on 22 October 1942
https://www.zagladazydow.pl/index.php/z ... ew/142/137
more on the ZAL here - it employed Jews from Sokołów and Węgrów over its lifespan in 1940-42, working on river regulation. Both communities also supplying the initial workforce for Treblinka I and II. To get to Siedlce county one has to go north from Sokołów and Węgrów counties (these being where Treblinka was, to clarify).
https://zapomniane.org/en/miejsce/szczeglacin-2/
Distrikt Warschau with its 60 ghettos should be an acid test for you. 29 of these ghettos were transferred into the Warsaw ghetto before Treblinka II became operational, clearing four Kreise/counties entirely. Five Kreise in the province outside of Warsaw city saw deportations to Treblinka.
Warsaw city to Treblinka as indicated in Fahrplananordnung Nr 548 from 3 August 1942 went Warsaw-Tluszcz-Malkinia-Treblinka with a nominal journey time of one hour and fifty-five minutes. Tluszcz was one of several ghettos in Kreis Warschau-Land that was cleared in May 1942. There was a very small selection for work on an agricultural estate at Wilanów, which is now part of the Warsaw conurbation.
The Great Deportation from Warsaw city cannot be explained by reference to dropping off part of the deportees at labour camps before reaching Treblinka, not until one gets past Malkinia, since Treblinka I was south of Malkinia. Israel Cymlich, one of the few survivors of Treblinka I from this phase, was deported from Warsaw to Treblinka and his wagon was selected for Treblinka I in August 1942, while the train was idling in the stretch between Malkinia and Treblinka II.
This is where revisionist straw-clutching about Malkinia is so damaging to the revisionist thesis. The rail gauge argument is entirely moot as the Malkinia-Bialystok-Minsk line was regauged in 1941, as this was a major supply artery for the Eastern Front and Army Group Centre. If one was organising transports beyond the Government-General, one would either simply schedule trains to be taken over by Haupteisenbahndirektion Mitte once they passed Malkinia, or one would have set up a transit camp at Malkinia so that trains could be retained by Gedob and other trains pick up the deportees for onward transit, if that is the supposed logic. But they did not. One would not have parked a transit camp at Treblinka off the Malkinia line especially for the Warsaw ghetto when there is a straight line from Warsaw-Malkinia-Bialystok-Baranovichi-Minsk into Belarus. The distance of 5-6 km between Malkinia and Treblinka is a huge hassle for no good reason.
One would not have routed transports as with the Włoszczowa, Szydlowiec and Kozienice Fahrplananordung via Lukow, a town in the Lublin district, to the east of Malkinia and Treblinka. The Lukow-Siedlce-Treblinka route approaches Treblinka from the south, and doesn't need to pass through Malkinia first.
Which also means Siedlce, Sokolow Podlaski, Wegrow, Lukow, Radzyn, Biala Podlaska and Miedzyrzec Podlaski also come from the south, just as we see in Fahrplananordnung Nr 565 for Lukow-Siedlce-Treblinka and Fahrplananordung Nr 562 for Miedzyrzec Podlaski-Lukow-Siedlce-Treblinka. And by logic also the Deblin-Irena autumn 1942 deportation to Treblinka.
Bezirk Bialystok transports travelling south-west hit Malkinia on the border very quickly and thus had essentially no stops within the Government-General and Distrikt Warschau before reaching Treblinka. The logic of sending those transports southwest when they had mostly originated from explicit collection camps which could easily have sent trains east, if they were meant to go east, has always escaped me. This has never once been explained coherently by a revisionist, much as the east-west transports from Distrikt Galizien to Belzec have never been explained.
