(This article was originally posted on October 24th, 2002. It has been updated with new information) How did the word ‘Holocaust’ come to be the term for the supposed atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis in WW2? Elie Wiesel, a well-known survivor of Auschwitz/Birkenau, made a big contribution to popularizing the term. Wiesel was one of…
Category: Survivors
Unbelievable
The following is the first video I got when I searched for ‘Holocaust’ on YouTube. Unbelievable is an apt term for descripting the orthodox claims made about Auschwitz because I certainly don’t believe them. However, PBS is using the term ‘unbelievable’ for a different reason. Allow my robot assistant, Bill, to explain: Very interesting, thank…
Unique and Sensitive Testimony
Today me and my robot assistant are going to analyze some witness testimony from Filip Müller. Filip Müller is said to have been a member of the Sonderkommando, a unit of Jewish inmates that were allegedly forced to help the Germans with the murdering of other Jews. According to Wikipedia Müller witnessed tens of thousands…
Corrie ten Boom and Ravensbruck
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. The following is from the CoDoH forum: A little background info: The ten Boom’s were a Dutch family living in Haarlem. They were…
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 (a Jewish inmate that allegedly helped the Germans kill other Jews) 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…
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….