Te fate of the transports in general.
After the women and children were separated from the men upon the arrival of a transport at the Auschwitz station, the usual selections for employment took place. It must be assumed that in general, i.e. except in a number of exceptional cases, even among the direct Auschwitz transports in the Cosel period, only men were assigned for work and that women, as well as children and men who were not considered "workable", were immediately killed by gassing. The latter is deduced from the fact that:
1): only very sporadically the names of women deported by these transports are found in the Auschwitz administration;
2): statements by survivors have only revealed the existence of very few women after the day of arrival;
3): Of the approximately 20,000 Jewish women who were deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz in the period August-December 1942, none returned or were even found (after the evacuation of Auschwitz) in one of the western camps.
To determine the time of death of the women, of whom individually nothing is known, the greatest accuracy is therefore obtained from the point of view of probability theory if the date of death is taken as the day of arrival at Auschwitz, i.e. 3 days after the date departure of the transport involved from Westerbork. The same date of death therefore applies to children and to men who were not selected for employment.
In connection with this, this chapter need only be concerned mainly with determining the time of death of the men who are known or must be assumed to have been among those employed, insofar as there is no information regarding their death. individual data are available. This task is somewhat easier than with the Cosel transports, because almost all of the selected men are employed in the camps (sub-commands) of the actual Auschwitz complex, i.e. in the "Stammlager" Auschwitz I, in Birkenau (Auschwitz II) or in the Monowitz-Buna, Jawischowitz and Golleschau labor camps (Auschwitz III), and therefore not, like the men who were taken off the train in Cose I, were spread over a large number of widely separated "Zwangsarbeitslager". They are also all included in the Auschwitz administration from the day of arrival and appear under separate maricule number series, which can usually be determined quite accurately.
It has emerged that also in the case of direct Auschwitz transports, the age limit that was taken into account during the selection for employment can generally be set at approximately 15-50 years.
The fate of the transport of 25-09-1942.
No one returned from this transport. The Auschwitz administration shows that a total of 130 to 140 men must have been designated for employment. Tthe well-known matricula series rums from 65906 (B) to 66028 (W), and therefore includes 123 men.
Since the number of men aged 15-50 is 138, this age limit will therefore have been taken into account during the selection. Of the 27 known dates of death, 2 occur in October 142 – 16 in November – 6 in December – 2 in January 1943 and 1 in early February 1943.
After the last month, none of the men were heard from again. Based on these data, it can be assumed that the group of workers must have virtually died out around the end of January 1943. The men aged 15-50, about whom nothing is known individually, are therefore considered to have died no later than 31 January 1943.
Letters were received from Birkenau from 3 men, namely 2 on 1 December 1942 and the last on 14 December 1942. No letters from Monowitz were received from this transport. No single trace of the women from this transport was found after the deportation date.
Annex IV: From the summary of the conclusions of the “Direct Auschwitz transports”
Of the transport of 25-09-1942 (departure date from Westerbork), are considered to have died on the day of arrival at Auschwitz, (3 days after departure from Westerbork), all women as well as men, born before 28-09-1942 and boys born before 28-09-1927.
The men, born on or between the dates 28-09-1891 and 28-09-1927 are considered to have died no earlier than 3 days after departure from Westerbork and no later than 31-01-1943.
Source: the archive of the Dutch Red Cross, publication “Auschwitz III – Direct Transport (25-09-1942), edited in October 1952, pages 63, 64 and 65, 70 and 71, plus annex IV.