As of December 31, 1983, the total number of deaths registered with the Special Registry Office and various other registry offices was 373,468. This figure represented death certificates issued pursuant to received applications and was based, with respect to the Special Registry Office, on camp records kept by the Germans during the war.
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While some were executions, the vast majority of the deaths were from typhus and other diseases, old age, and natural causes.