emigrated

emigrated
   killed
   How the Nazis explained the absence of those sent to extermination camps:
    I replied to her on the 25th and the card came back today. Blue stamp on it 'returned', note in pencil 'emigrated'... 'Emigrated' for been emigrated. Innocuous word for 'robbery', 'expulsion', 'sent to one's death'. Now, of all times, one can no longer assume that any Jews will return from Poland alive. (Klemperer, 1999, in translation: diary entry 27 February 1943)

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