CaptainHowdy
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There are some descriptions of transports, although for only a fraction of the total. Here is one such document. I do not know of any that give the names of those transported.
There has to be a method of identifying individual Jews who were sent to the death camps and never seen again. Earlier I asked a very abstract and pretty much unanswerable question: Where did the Jews who survived the Holocaust go? The dominant response seemed to be confusion about what I was asking. Some of the most specific answers were "They mostly emigrated, and began telling their stories of thei horrible losses of their other family members to the evil of the Nazis" or "The answer to your question is: everywhere. They went everywhere. Some ended up behind the iron curtain, some emigrated to Israel. There was a movement in the US to bring survivors here, especially relatives of American Jews. There was a Jewish community in Hong Kong. There was a movie made about Jews who fled to Africa. Canada, France, England - everybody went everywhere."
The answers I got were what I anticipated. I asked that very abstract question because there seems to be a belief that the only way to prove that the Holocaust did not happen is to find the "missing Jews" that everybody agrees were killed. It's even been implied that specific physical attributes of the Holocaust such as fitting an average of 14 corpses in a cubic meter of mass grave burial space cannot be false unless these "missing Jews" are found.
I submit that if nobody can tell me in the abstract sense where the Jews who survived the Holocaust went, how would being unable to locate the Jews who didn't survive the Holocaust in the abstract sense prove or disprove anything? How do we distinguish between "missing Jews" and "not missing Jews" if we don't know where any of them went? Aren't they all missing? And if the "missing Jews" survived the Holocaust, then they are Jews who survived the Holocaust. So they went where all the Holocaust survivors went.
So there are no "missing Jews" in the abstract sense that need to be found before the Holocaust can be challenged. But there can still be "missing Jews." But they would have to be "missing" in the concrete sense. What I mean is that we would need the names of specific Jews who were sent to a death camp and then never seen again. That's the only way the concept of "missing Jews" could have any meaning.
If there are no lists that give the names of Jews that were transported to a death camp and no way to determine individual Jews who were sent to the death camps, how can any Jews be considered missing?