# Talk:Transport of Białystok children

Reading the bit about the Mufti's involvement, I began wondering as to what - if any - influence he actually had on affairs inside the Third Reich, especially by 1943 when the German aspirations in his area of the world began to look more and more grandiose considering the general turn of the war against the Germans and their allies. Why would the Nazis care about what he thinks regarding resettlement - they could just say that they didn't know the children were headed to Palestine if they really wanted plausible deniability. By this point in the war - when even officials in the German High Command began to see things were hovering around inevitable defeat - why would they want to still cultivate influence with this person? I bring this up because I think just a little explanation would benefit this article and would better explain him being oft included in the historiography of the event. 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hadn't earlier in the Third Reich's rule they lied to Muslim officials in Palestine - saying they weren't exploring the possibility of expelling Jews there when they were in fact exploring that very possibility? Why would they care so much now as to scrap a negotiation they seemed to have deemed rather important? I hope someone can shed light on this for me. 2601:87:4400:AF2:EDE9:BA4E:F2D9:268 (talk) 20:57, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

2601:87:4400:AF2:EDE9:BA4E:F2D9:268 All Wikipedia articles should be based on coverage in reliable sources , rather than personal speculation, which constitutes original research . Catrìona (talk) 21:44, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello @Catrìona:, is "liquidation" the proper term for what happened to the Białystok Ghetto, or is it a WP:EUPHEMISM? I was thinking that something like "annihilation" might be closer to what happened (the slaughter of thousands of people), although I am not an expert on the Shoah and if that is the term used in the literature than it should stay. Thanks! --Chumash11 (talk) 21:21, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

@Chumash11: Thanks for your comment. I use "liquidation" for the dismantling of ghettos, concentration camps, etc. because that is the common term in the scholarly literature and even memorial websites,[1] with awareness that it is a Nazi term and potentially a euphemism. "Annihilation" isn't always accurate, because frequently the Nazis took the most fit people and sent them to a labor camp temporarily, and other people managed to escape and hide. I do avoid using "liquidation" for people (preferring "killing", "murder", "massacre" etc.) even though you will find that occasionally in scholarly works. Catrìona (talk) 21:49, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

In this article Theaterprojekt in Wittenberg: Schicksal jüdischer Kinder in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German) about a theater play about the Białystok children in Theresianstadt the chief writer of the play states these children were initially planned to be exchanged for German POWs of Great Britain in Africa.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MethAnkauf2 (talk • contribs) 15:17, 24 July 2025 (UTC)