By Carolyn Yeager ∙ April 18, 2011
Last year, I wrote an article published here about Denis Avey, a man whose newly-released WWII concentration camp survivor story was getting a lot of attention in the British press. In my article, and on my Internet radio program The Heretics’ Hour, I did a pretty thorough job of debunking Avey’s poorly concocted story and…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ March 16, 2010
In 1995, Ernst Lobethal gave his testimony as a survivor of The Holocaust to the Survivors of the Shoah Foundation for their video library, as thousands of others have done. In it, he had some words to say about a British soldier he met while interned at Auschwitz III (Monowitz) who had done him a…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ September 25, 2010
By Carolyn Yeager Part III: Nine reasons why Elie Wiesel cannot be the author of Un di Velt Hot Gesvign (And the World Remained Silent). 1. The only original source for the existence of an 862-page Yiddish manuscript is Elie Wiesel. Wiesel’s 1995 memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea is the first time he…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ September 24, 2010
By Carolyn Yeager Part Two: Can the books Night and And the World Remained Silent have been written by the same author? What one critic reveals. We know a lot about the man who calls himself Elie Wiesel from his own mouth and pen, but we know of the Lazar Wiesel born on Sept. 4,…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ September 23, 2010
By Carolyn Yeager In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did. … – Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea Part One: When and how was Un di Velt Hot Gesvign written? The question I present to you, the interested public is: Was…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ July 22, 2010
by Carolyn Yeager I Con the World Is Elie Wiesel an icon or an “I con?” Venerated and billed as “the world’s most famous Holocaust survivor” and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in speaking fees (at $25,000 a pop it might be closer to say a million),…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ February 8, 2010
By Carolyn Yeager Dear Dr. Neander, Thank you for your letter of February 3rd. First let me assure you that you are welcome to any assistance I can give you in keeping the facts about Irene Zisblatt and the entire “Auschwitz experience” in order. (See 2nd paragraph at:http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2010/02/response-to-c-yeager.html#_ftnref2)As a self-described independent scholar who has moved…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ January 24, 2010
by Carolyn Yeager Joachim Neander, PhD, an independent scholar from Cracow, Poland, examines Irene Weisberg Zisblatt’s holocaust survivor narrative and concludes it is “not in accordance with the historically established facts,” is “exaggerated,” “implausible” and not true overall. Neander has contributed to publications in Poland, Germany, Israel and the USA. In 2001-02 he had a…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ January 18, 2010
Irene Weisberg Zisblatt writes of swallowing the same diamonds over and over again for a year in order to save all she has left of her family. What else does she say—and why is it not believable? Apophenia: the phenomenon of seeing things that aren't there. People will see, and believe, what they expect to…
By Carolyn Yeager ∙ January 15, 2010
Irene Weisberg Zisblatt writes of swallowing the same diamonds over and over again for a year in order to save all she has left of her family. What else does she say—and why is it not believable? Apophenia: the phenomenon of seeing things that aren't there. People will see, and believe, what they expect to…
End of content
End of content
