Ilya Ehrenburg informed us in August 1944, that there were German "death factories", which could each asphyxiate 2,000 people per day, in:
- Bolshoy Trostyanets (Maly Trostenets, Belarus)
- Ponari (Ponary, map), near Vilinus, Lithuania
- Belzhetse, near Rava Russkaya (he probably meant Belzec, which is 12 miles from Rava-Ruska)
- Novoy Dvor (probably Nowy Dwór, Mazowiecki, map, 19 miles NW of Warsaw)
- Sabibor (meaning Sobibor)
The legends of the asphyxiation "death factories" in Belzhetse (Belzec) and Sabibor (Sobibor) endure, as do Ehrenburg's "gas wagons" at Bolshoy Trostyanets (Maly Trostenets). But Ehrenburg's asphyxiation death factory in Ponary was long ago changed to the site of mass shootings. As for Novoy Dvor (presuming he meant Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki), its Jews were deported to Auschwitz, and although there was a ghetto there, it's not now claimed to have been a site of mass execution, let alone the location of an asphyxiation death factory.
PM Daily (NY), Sunday, August 13, 1944, p.4