For most the name Corrie ten Boom means nothing aside from its peculiar nature. For others she was a household name. In fact, books about her story are still being written today. Corrie ten Boom is best known for her book, The Hiding Place. Long story short so we can get to the interesting stuff,…
Category: Survivors
Filip Müller
Filip Müller is a well known and fondly remembered ex-Sonderkommando of the Holocaust. Sonderkommando being a Jew that allegedly assisted the Germans in murdering other Jews. I have written about Müller and his story of eating poppy seed cake in the gas chamber before. I have also previously mentioned how Raul Hilberg in his definitive…
Henryk Tauber
Henryk Tauber was a Holocaust survivor who had claimed to be an Sonderkommando while in Auschwitz. His testimony to the the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes was given in Krakow on May 24, 1945. Jean-Claude Pressac, whom I have written about, has this to say about Tauber: Let’s take a look at an…
Happy Halloween!
When Night by Elie Wiesel was released in 1960 it was presented as the true story of Wiesel’s WW2 experiences. In the spirit of Halloween I present you with a spooky tale from Night. Several Pages later Wiesel makes a point of referencing this incredible, straight out of a movie, story to make sure that…
Shedding Light on ‘Night’
When the first English translation of Elie Wiesel’s Night was released in 1960 it was a non-fiction book that was ‘beyond criticism’. This book was presented as the true autobiography of Wiesel and many students were required to read it. Today a Google search will show you that this same book is fictional children’s literature….