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?

Some Interesting Questions for Professor Elie Wiesel

As is clear from David Irving's letter (above). Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel has resumed his attacks on revisionists (perhaps someone showed him a copy of Smith’s Report No. 31, which exposed his hypocrisy in pressing for the rehabilitation of the German Carl von Ossietzky while ignoring the current plight of Israeli Mordechai Vanunu). Careful…

Misha: Surviving with Wolves – Or Lying with Wolves?

Misha (deWael) Defonseca was unquestionably a victim, if a “collateral” victim, of the Germans who were occupying her country of Belgium when she was four years old. They executed both of her parents after duly trying them as resistance fighters and finding them guilty. That all this, including their execution, was perfectly legal under the…

Confronting Human Nature at the USHMM

Sara Bloomfield, DirectorUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum100 Raoul Wallenberg Pl. SWWashington, DC 20024-2126Main telephone: 202.488.0400TTY: 202.488.0406 12 March 2014 Ms. Bloomfield. On the Website of the USHMM there is a page titled Voices on Anti-Semitism (http://tinyurl.com/kukxuny). There I find a podcast where you make a number of interesting, morally valuable observations. On the question of…

Doing What Matters at the USHMM

Sara Bloomfield, DirectorUnited States HolocaustMemorial Museum100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SWWashington, DC 20024-2126Main telephone: 202.488.0400TTY: 202.488.0406 26 March 2014 Ms. Bloomfield: I have just read the article in The Jewish Daily Forward titled “Holocaust Museum Turns 20 as Sara Bloomfield Ends Controversies.” http://tinyurl.com/pubn57n Written by Nathan Guttman, the article was occasioned by the coming 2014 Days…

How the ADL and the USHMM Choose to Evade the Issue of One (only) Class of Nazi Collaborators

Smith's Report, No. 203, March 2014, pp. 1-3 Abraham FoxmanThe Anti-Defamation LeagueNew York City, New York Mr. Foxman: If you will, I have a question about Nazi war criminals to which perhaps one of you can provide some clarification. The background is this: In 2009 the ADL called on the Department of Homeland Security to…

Dr. Mengele’s “Medical Experiments” on Twins in the Birkenau Gypsy Camp

1. The “Crimes” of Dr. Mengele In 1997, Helena Kubica, researcher at the Auschwitz Museum, published a long article entitled “Dr. Mengele und seine Verbrechen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau” (“Dr. Mengele and His Crimes in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp”).[1] The author sifted through the numerous documents on Dr. Mengele’s activities at Birkenau preserved in the archives…

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