“Magda Goebbels”… in the Yad Vashem Database

Today we prove (again) that the number of Holocaust victims boasted by the Jerusalem Holocaust museum Yad Vashem is unreliable, as anyone with a few clicks can enter any fake name into that database, ranging from just one all the way to infinity. It’s just a matter of time and desire… or need!

We have already demonstrated that Yad Vashem’s sources are questionable. (See the previous two papers in this issue.) This is the clearest evidence that Yad Vashem’s database contains many errors and false entries in its database of alleged Holocaust victims, although it is (yet) unknown exactly how many false entries in contains.

As further proof, we report that Dr. Mirko Viola tested the credibility of this database further by entering, via email, the name of a nonexistent victim of the “Nazi” gassers! The invented data of this made-up individual are: Dova Cohen, a dentist, born in Hungary on January 28, 1903, but living in Ukraine. Dr. Viola claimed that this phantom person was deported to Auschwitz and gassed there on June 28, 1943.

To confirm receipt of the email with the bogus information, Dr. Viola received the following email from Yad Vashem in response:

“Thank you for submitting a Page of Testimony. Please note that the registration number is: 59028.

Please confirm your submission by replying to this e-mail (click on ‘reply’ and then on ‘send’). Without such confirmation the Page cannot be processed.

Enclosed is a formatted copy (PDF) of the data that you submitted in memory of the victim. In order to ensure that this Page of Testimony is

also preserved as a tangible symbolic ‘matzeva’ (tombstone) in the Hall of Names, we request that you print it out, hand sign it and post it to:

Hall of Names
Yad Vashem PO Box 3477
Jerusalem 91034, Israel

Processing the digital data will take time before the Page is integrated into the Names Database. We kindly request your patience.

Thank you for helping to preserve the memory of a Holocaust victim.”

Page of testimony submitted and accepted by Dr. Mirko Viola with the data of an invented person, “Dova Cohen.” Here taken from the Yad Vashem website on March 18, 2015.

Entry in Vad Vashem’s database of “Shoah victims” resulting from the acceptance of the invented data on , “Dova Cohen” submitted by Dr. Mirko Viola. Here taken from the Yad Vashem website on March 18, 2015.

As of the date of this paper getting first published (March 19, 2015), everyone could verify that this fake entry was included in the list of Shoah victims.

The surprises do not end there, though; in fact, another “name” was submitted by, and entered on August 13, 2014 into the Yad Vashem database, assigning to this “victim” certain characteristics that would have made any skeptical mind suspicious! Let us see them:

1. Name: Edith Frolla (an Anagram of Adolf Hitler)
2. Birthday: 20 April 1889 (as Adolf Hitler)
3. Profession: painter (as Adolf Hitler)
4. Residence: Rome, Via della Lungara 29 (the address of the Regina Coeli Prison)
5. The portrait uploaded is, among subject historians, well-known as depicting… Magda Goebbels, Joseph Goebbels’s wife.
6. Death: murdered in the Majdanek Camp with carbon monoxide.

Yet in an article published in the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera of 22 Nov. 2004, a Yad-Vashem official is quoted asserting that all names entered into the database would be verified before publication, quote:

“‘Millions of names that appear in several historical documents have not yet been identified or registered in the database; many more names are still in the memory of survivors or families,’ reports the site, which allows family and friends to report any missing names with the promise that theywill be verified and entered into the database.” (Emphases in the original.)

Submission and acceptance confirmation by Yad Vashem of our submission of Magda Goebbels, as Edith Frolla (anagram for Adolf Hitler) into the museum’s “Shoah Victims” database..

Magda Goebbels as Edith Frolla (anagram for Adolf Hitler) successfully entered by Olodogma into the Yad Vashem database of “Shoah victims.”

The screenshots included in the paper “How to Increase the Number of Deaths in the Holocaust” contained in this issue show, however, that the test of entering fake gassing victims was successful! In other words: no one verified anything! There are no checks at all! Not even on the photo! When Yad Vashem is cited as the highest “authority” possessing “evidence” for millions of victims of the so-called Holocaust, we can quietly chuckle, or pass on a reference to this paper!

Initial Reactions

The very same day we posted the above article online at olodogma.com (now defunct), it went viral, as was visible by our site’s visitor counter going crazy. The post was translated into French and other languages, and mirrored far and wide. After the avalanche of visits to our site, our Facebook page was perpetually flagged as offensive because it “contains speech or symbols that incite hatred.” However, despite numerous and periodic reports, the platform’s management keeps refusing to remove our page.

Further Reactions

On March 22, 2015, hence three days after we reported out prank of having inserted Magda Goebbels into Yad Vashem’s database, this entry was removed, while the two other entries we reported – those of Edith Lang and Dova Cohen – were still present.[1]

From the time our article was post at 09.19 a.m. on March 19, 2015, our server logged frantic visits to our Olodogma site originating from “chosen” internet addresses, some evidently directly from Main Temple of Holocaustianism inside the self-walled ghetto of Palestine. We report some data in the following table:

The case of Edith Frolla has been solved: She has been exterminated by Yad Vashem, and any trace of her went up in smoke, any memory of her has vanished into the memory hole. But wasn’t the extermination of memory the job of the Nazis?

What lessons do we learn from the behavior of the Jerusalem Holocaust Museum?

1. Will anyone be able to draw conclusions regarding the museum’s non-compliance with its promises to VERIFY the data that arrive by mail or email?
2. Will anyone be able to detect the chocoholic’s foolishness over the deletion of the bogus name “Frolla Edith,” an incontrovertible indication of the “laxness” (mildly put) in the handling of information? (This deletion occurred after our original post had already been translated, mirrored and disseminated throughout Europe.)
3. Will anyone be able to detect a funereal atmosphere of unreliability that will “infect,” if not taint, the institution’s aura of holo-sacredness?
4. Will anyone be able to detect that a deadly weapon threatening the survival of the sacred mission of such a holocaustic charade has been given to all?
5. Will anyone be able to note that the “laxness” (again mildly put) of operation of such a charade has irreversibly disparaged the memory of those who really died during that time? (Here, we exclude ALL the claimed gassing victims, for whose gassing not the slightest evidence exists).
6. Will anyone be able to note that ANY reference, in discussions or presentations on ALL levels, to such a charade posing as a center for “shoah education” will be rendered counterproductive for the proponent?
7. In fact, will anyone be able to ask in rebuttal: Has anything of what you say been verified by such a museum? …or has it the same credibility as in the cases of Edith Lang, Dova Cohen and Edith Frolla?

…and they will insist that “we will have to shut up,” because three precedents don’t make a case! But to us, it looks quite different.

Ask yourself: did we get any of the above questions wrong?

The USHMM Follows Yad Vashem’s Example

On July 17, 2013, i24news.tv reported that the U.S. Holocaust memorial Museum has teamed up with the website Ancestry.com to document and archive the fate of “Nazi persecutees.” Will the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum replicate the holo-Dunkerque of Edith Frolla (Adolf Hitler)?

Editor’s Post Scriptum

The iconoclastic in-their-face pranks pulled off by the contributors of the Italian website www.olodogma.com was one of the main reasons why Italy enacted a harsh anti-Holocaust-denial law in 2016, threatening any revisionist utterance on the Holocaust with up to six years imprisonment. As a result, the organizers of www.olodogma.com dropped the ball. Initially, CODOH picked up the slack by taking over the domain name and keeping the site as a static archive. Later, we integrated all html data into CODOH’s library, albeit in a very unprofessional “dumpster”-type approach by merely copying and pasting the html code. That resulted in some 1500 pages of chaotically mal-formatted text with missing illustrations and dysfunctional links. This being a disservice, we decided to take it offline. We are now slowly rummaging through this pile to see what is worth preserving and translating. The posts forming the basis for the present paper here are one such worthwhile case. And it’s fun to read, too. Italian-reading volunteers are welcome to help us with this task. – The Editor, May 2024.

Note

[1]    Editor’s remark: They are still present as this article is edited for print release in May 2024: https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/10240798; https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/10240799