Witnesses

The orthodox Holocaust narrative rests almost exclusively on witness testimony. This section is dedicated to the critique of the witnesses and their statements in literature, media, and courts of law.

Jan Karski’s Visit to Belzec

“Claude Lanzmann: There are no survivors of Belzec. Jan Karski: There are a lot of them!” “One man who tried to stop the Holocaust.” “The first witness to the Holocaust.” Superlatives have never been lacking in descriptions of the Polish courier Jan Karski. His celebrity has extended to academia, where much ink has been spilled…

The Karski Report: The Holocaust in Miniature

This issue of Inconvenient History features an article by Friedrich Jansson that is appropriate to the Year 2014, designated by the Sejm (legislature) of Poland the Year of (Jan) Karski, the intrepid courier/witness for the London-based government-in-exile of Poland, born in Poland one hundred years ago. The article discloses, for the first time of which…

The Importance of Anne Frank

By Richard A. Widmann and David Merlin – The story of Anne Frank and her family is well-known through the diary bearing her name. This tragic tale is frequently used to counter Holocaust revisionists. The details of the story are often forgotten or replaced with assumptions regarding the fates of Anne Frank and her family….

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…

Dr. Henri Roques has died

By Richard A. Widmann- On 16 March 2014, Dr. Henri Roques died.  Roques, who was 93 at the time of his death, had spent a week in the hospital having been admitted for a double pulmonary embolism. Roques was born in Lyon on 10 November 1920. A revisionist pioneer, he became interested in revisionism in…

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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