Victims

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?

The Wiesenthal Files: What the Documents Reveal about Simon Wiesenthal’s Past, Part 3

Chapter 3: The Soviet Past of Simon Wiesenthal Researchers associated with the Committee for Open Debate of the Holocaust have gathered evidence which raises serious questions as to Simon Wiesenthal' s past associations with the Soviet Union. Most of this evidence appears to stem from Simon Wiesenthal himself, and it points to Wiesenthal' s voluntary…

Yaffa Eliach – “one of America’s most respected Holocaust scholars”

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…

Shmuel Krakowski on Eyewitesses

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…

Different strokes for different folks…so stroke this

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…

The Treblinka Holocaust

“Achieving our quest of a 'new world order' depends on our learning the Holocaust's lessons.”—Ian J. Kagedan[2] 1. The Demjanjuk Trial and Treblinka[1] 1.1. Background of the Demjanjuk Trial In the days of the Soviet Union, the American immigrants from Ukraine were split into two factions, one of which was favorably disposed towards Moscow. At…

Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz

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…

Simon Wiesenthal: Fraudulent “Nazi hunter’

There exists a revised and updated version of this article: https://codoh.com/library/document/simon-wiesenthal-fraudulent-nazi-hunter-1/. 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…

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