To the impartial observer, a testimony by an individual who belonged to a group allegedly targeted by the Nazis for extermination does not always sound absolutely convincing, but who would wish to insinuate that those who had such terrible experiences during the war are not telling the truth? In the eyes of the public, the Holocaust survivors have become sanctified, indubitable, and irreproachable. It is precisely in this respect that skepticism, criticism and scrutiny have become most important. This section deals with persons who were on the side of the alleged victims and who either confirmed or denied the claimed events – or sometimes both. What are these testimonies worth?
By Dana I. Alvi ∙ August 12, 1996
Below is our response to the US News & World Report (USN&WR) article of July 8, 1996 and The New York Times (NYT) autobiographical article by Yaffa Eliach of August 6, 1996. Only the USN&WR article is copied below, the NYT is very long, current and easily available to anyone interested. USN&WR in its July…
By David Miller ∙ April 29, 1994
Holocaust survivor Mel Marmelstein believes that it was his profound ability to deny reality that saved his life in the face of Nazi aggression. During a gruesome year spent in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald concentration camps, he forced himself to believe that he would not die, that he would defy the odds and live to…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ June 6, 1996
Postwar testimonies of Jews range from the fantastic to the plausible. As for the fantastic, it would be hard to better the famous Elie Wiesel, who claimed that at Babi-Yar in the Ukraine “for months after the killings (of Jews) the ground continued to spurt geysers of blood.”[1] However the testimonies of lesser known Jews…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ May 16, 1996
The Jerusalem Post (17 August 1986) article about Krakowski and the Yad Vashem Archives was by the reporter Barbara Amouyal, who wrote that the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem hold 20,000 such testimonies of “Holocaust survivors”. Its director at the time, Shmuel Krakowski, is quoted by Amouyal as declaring that over half are “unreliable… Many…
By Orest Slepokura ∙ December 27, 1995
Here is how Stuart Kahan describes his uncle, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, in his memoir The Wolf of The Kremlin [William Morrow: New York, 1987, pp. 14f.]: “…Stalin's closest confidant, the chairman of the Soviet Presidium, the man who set up the amalgamation of the state security forces that later became the infamous KGB, the man…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ January 1, 1993
1. Summary[*] Eyewitness testimony must always be verified. There are two essential means of verifying such testimony in criminal cases: confronting the account with the material elements (in particular, with expertise as to the crime weapon), and the detailed cross-examination of the witness on what he/she purports to have seen. Thus, in the proceedings where…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 1, 1989
Simon Wiesenthal is a living legend. In a formal White House ceremony in August 1980, a teary-eyed President Carter presented the world's foremost “Nazi hunter” with a special gold medal awarded by the U.S. Congress. President Reagan praised him in November 1988 as one of the “true heroes” of this century. He is the recipient…
By Rita Boas Koupman ∙ January 1, 1974
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By Robert Faurisson ∙ January 10, 1993
Summary Elie Wiesel passes for one of the most celebrated eyewitnesses to the alleged Holocaust. Yet in his supposedly autobiographical book Night, he makes no mention of gas chambers. He claims instead to have witnessed Jews being burned alive, a story now dismissed by all historians. Wiesel gives credence to the most absurd stories of…
By Claus Jordan ∙ January 1, 1993
For a short time during the war, Gottfried Weise was a German guard in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Was he therefore automatically a subhuman not deserving to be heard? Gottfried Weise asserted that he did not do anything evil in these months, and ten former internees who could remember Weise confirmed this. However, two other…
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