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Old April 14th, 2023 #541
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Arnold Friedman's tale - You could tell the nationality of those being holocausted by the color of the flames shooting out of the chimneys!!


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Witness indecisive: Lawyer challenges crematoria theory

By Kirk Makin

ERNST Zundel's lawyer challenged the testimony of a Holocaust survivor yesterday, telling the man he couldn't have seen concentration camp chimneys belch smoke and flames from exterminated Jews because crematoria don't emit anything.

"I suggest it is quite impossible for smoke to come from a crematoria from human beings," said Doug Christie, whose client is charged with spreading false news. "What do you say about that, sir?"

"Nothing," Arnold Friedman, prisoner number B14515, initially replied. "If you're talking of crematoria in Toronto and crematoria in Auschwitz, those are two different things. In Birkenau (part of Auschwitz complex), smoke came out of the chimney."

"I put it to you that you don't really understand anything about crematoria, to say: 'Aha, that is a crematorium,' because that is quite wrong, sir," Mr. Christie said.

Many observers in the packed courtroom were left shaking their heads or fidgeting uncomfortably as Mr. Friedman, 56, then agreed that perhaps Jews were not being burnt in the chimneyed buildings.

Over a two-day span, Mr. Friedman has testified repeatedly to seeing thousands of boys herded toward the crematoria, and of seeing trainloads of people unloaded near the ominous buildings.

He told of how he and other internees even thought they could tell whether fat or skinny people, Ukrainians or Poles, were being cremated by looking at the color of the smoke.

Mr. Friedman's sudden indecision in the face of Mr. Christie's forceful questioning touched off an almost-perceptible shockwave in the courtroom. "Couldn't there have been other explanations (for the smoke and flames)?" Mr. Christie asked, pressing home his advantage.

"Yes, there could have," Mr. Friedman replied. "If I had listened to you at the time when I was listening to other people (in the camp), I might have listened to you. But at the time I listened to them."

The dramatic testimony took place at the trial of Ernst Zundel, who has pleaded not guilty to two charges of knowingly publishing false news which caused or was to cause damage to social and racial tolerance.

In one of two articles forming the subject of the charges, the author maintains information on the Holocaust has been grossly exaggerated or faked. One of the Crown's tasks is to prove Mr. Zundel knew the articles were false.
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Old April 20th, 2023 #542
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Samuel Pisar's holo fairytale - Survived 3 "death" camps - Escaped gas chamber by claiming he "was there only to wash the floor"

The story is that Samuel survived the "death" camps of Majdanek, Auschwitz and Dachau.

That's funny, because now even Holohoax propagandists acknowledge that both Majdanek and Dachau were not extermination camps. Oh well, let's not spoil Samuel's and the Jew York Times' fun.

The Germans tried twice to kill Samuel by putting him in the gas chamber, but Samuel escaped by telling the guard that he was only there to wash the floor.

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THE SATURDAY PROFILE

After Survival, a Journey to Self-Recovery

Samuel Pisar, a Jewish survivor of Majdanek, Auschwitz and Dachau,
the Nazi concentration camps.

By STEVEN ERLANGER
The New York Times
Published: July 10, 2009
PARIS

A feral child still lives haunted within him, Samuel Pisar says, and mocks all his fitted suits, lovely furnishings and worldly success.
“The little one with the sunken eyes and shaved head helps a lot,” he said. “He’s very severe with me; he disapproves of so many things; he’s a kind of conscience.”

Mr. Pisar, now 80, an author, consultant and international lawyer, was 10 when his native Poland was swallowed by Hitler and Stalin. He somehow survived the death camps of Majdanek, Auschwitz and Dachau, emerging at 16, hardened and wild, his Polish family gone to ash.

He spent a year and a half with older survivors as a hooligan and black marketeer in the American occupation zone of Germany, living high for revenge, riding a BMW motorcycle, selling Lucky Strikes and used coffee grounds stolen from the kitchens of the American occupying troops, reroasted and repackaged for the Germans.

He was rescued by a French aunt, and with the help of uncles in Australia he slowly created a life, one with extraordinary accomplishments: becoming an adviser on foreign economic policy to John F. Kennedy, whom he met at Harvard, and a confidant to Presidents François Mitterrand and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing of France; establishing himself as a lawyer to movie stars and corporate executives; making lots of money and finding happiness in a family that extends between France and the United States; and becoming a citizen of the United States by an act of Congress.

Mr. Pisar, pressed to confront his carefully hidden demons by his second wife, Judith, and his children, wrote a memoir in 1979, “Of Blood and Hope,” a moving saga of the nearly unspeakable, of survival and self-recovery. “I couldn’t move around any more like a shadow,” he said, “with all these taboos.”

He describes with relative openness how he was “molded to survive in the death camps, but not the Ivy League.” He survived by becoming pitiless and cruel, finding older protectors and ways to seem privileged in a hierarchy of despair, like persuading a prisoner-tailor to refashion a cap so that the stripes on the top perfectly met the stripes on the side. He was condemned to die at least twice, but managed to slip back into the general prison population, once convincing a guard that he was there only to wash the floor.
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Carol Sojcher's tale - Survived 5 camps, weighed 45 pounds at 17 years-old when liberated, only member of entire family to survive Shoah


Carol is a Holocaust treasure and the only member of her family who survived the Holocaust.

She went to five different death camps over five years, including Auschwitz.

So how did she survive and was not deathed in the five death camps? A miracle.

She says she weighed 45 pounds at 17 years-old when liberated.

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Remembering the 6 million

April 19 ceremony recalls the Holocaust


BY DIANE C. BEAUDOIN CHAMPION CORRESPONDENT
April 17, 2009
Leominster Champion

Carol Sojcher is a survivor.

She was only 12 when Hitler's troops invaded her native Poland. The Nazis killed her mother, father and brother, and sent her to Auschwitz. Carol persevered under horrific conditions, and on Sunday she will participate in a special ceremony to help commemorate those who were not so fortunate.

On April 19, the Congregation Agudat Achim of Leominster will hold a special remembrance of the Holocaust at 7 p.m.

Rabbi Alan M. Alpert said this will be the 11th service to remember those lost during the Holocaust.

"Each year we hold the remembrance service. During the service, we light six candles to commemorate the six million Jews who were killed during that time," the rabbi explained.

Rabbi Alpert said there is also a community-wide candle lighting that will take place, and the traditional prayer, called Kaddish, will be recited.

The Leominster synagogue has a few Holocaust survivors within its ranks who will also be in attendance at the somber ceremony.

Carol Sojcher, a Leominster resident, is a living piece of history as she is the only family member who survived the Holocaust. After her family was killed she was sent to live in five different camps over five years, including Auschwitz.

"The Nazis came and murdered my family, and I went through hell with a capital 'H'," she said softly during a telephone interview.

Carol is not sure why she was chosen to be the sole survivor of her family, but said she was determined to live.

"I ended up after the war going to Denmark then Sweden. I say I was a mess, at 17 years old I weighed only 45 pounds. The people of Sweden took care of me and nursed me to health," she recalled.

Carol came to the United States in 1945 after relatives she had in New York found her name on a list.
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"Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe" by Leo Bretholz; Escaped Nazis 7 times, all over Europe, swam rivers, climbed Alps, etc


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A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal).

Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing war-torn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in attics, cellars, anywhere that offered a few more seconds of safety. First he swam the River Sauer at the German-Belgian border. Later he climbed the Alps on feet so battered they froze to his socks--only to be turned back at the Swiss border. He crawled out from under the barbed wire of a French holding camp, and hid in a village in the Pyrenees while gendarmes searched it. And in the dark hours of one November morning, he escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz.

Leap into Darkness is the sweeping memoir of one Jewish boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.
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Old April 28th, 2023 #545
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Daniel Blatman's Holy Hoax tale: German civilians murdered Jews on death marches, burning them alive in barns

Old Israeli Jew Daniel Blatman has lifted the veil on yet more horrors of the Holocaust™.

Sometimes history is hard to believe, but these are cold hard facts from a professor at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

He has written a new book called "The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide".

In it, Blatman informs us that the German people finished the job that the Nazis couldn't do in the camps, killing Jews in savage acts of murder in the closing days of the war as Jews were on "death marches" going into Germany.

His book is the first book to research this area of "history."

Blatman claims 250,000 camp prisoners were murdered in this way.

He tells us, for instance, that Germans locked Jews in barns, lit gasoline-soaked straw on the ground and tossed in hand grenades.

You see, it wasn't just the Nazis. Thanks to Jews like Mr. Blatman, we know it was the German people who were the personification of "evil."


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Revealed: How even German civilians took part in killing concentration camp survivors

By Allan Hall for MailOnline
Daily Mail
Updated: 22:58 AEST, 21 January 2011

A new book about the closing days of World War II chronicles how German civilians murdered many concentration camp survivors as they moved through their towns and villages on infamous 'death marches' back into the shrinking Reich.

The violence shows how even with their nation in ruins, the Allies advancing on all fronts and the war hopeless, ordinary people were so indoctrinated with Nazi hate they were prepared to kill defenceless people in cold blood.


'The Death Marches: The Final Phase Of Nazi Genocide,' by Daniel Blatman, is the first book to research what drove these civilians to acts of savage murder.

Some 500,000 prisoners from the concentration camp gulag both within and without Germany were on the move in the first months of 1945.

As the Allies advanced, the shocking fate of approximately half of them became all too apparent.

Blatman says that in the town of Gardelegen, a town in east-central Germany, U.S. soldiers found hundreds of charred and mangled bodies in a barn in mid-April 1945.

'They were the bodies of prisoners from various camps who had been forced inside,' says the Israeli whose book is published this week and goes on sale in Germany.

'It was later discovered that people had volunteered to guard the prisoners, including ordinary civilians, some of them armed with hunting rifles, who mutated into prison guards of their own volition.

Blatman says youths shouted at the prisoners 'We're going hunting, to shoot down the zebras!' (a reference to the striped uniforms).

'Men from the Volkssturm militia, police officers, soldiers from a paratrooper division barracked nearby, guards and civilians helped drive the doomed prisoners into the barn,' adds the historian.

'Then they locked the doors, lit gasoline-soaked straw on the ground and tossed hand grenades into the building. Anyone who attempted to escape the inferno ran into a hail of bullets.

'Some 25 prisoners survived, while about 1,000 died.'

Colonel George P. Lynch, of the 102nd U.S. Infantry Division said afterwards of these attacks: 'Some will say that the Nazis were responsible for this crime.

'Others will point to the Gestapo. The responsibility rests with neither. It is the responsibility of the entire German people.'

A similar attack happened in the town of Celle not far from the concentration camp of Belsen where prisoners were 'killed like animals' in a forest according to a British military report. Some 300 died in the massacre which took place in April 1945 with a 17-year-old Hitler Youth leader accounting for 20 alone.

Blatman, of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said; 'The more the war approached its end, and the more obvious the prisoners' presence in the midst of the German population became, the more regularly German civilians participated.'

In Palmnicken near the former East Prussian city of Königsberg some 3,000 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp were herded by civilians on to beach of the frozen Baltic Sea to be mowed down by SS soldiers.

Along the country roads of a huge swathe of Germany can be found the little memorials to terrible acts where people were killed in ones and twos and sometimes tens and hundreds.

Blatman believes tens of thousands of 'ordinary Germans' became killers despite no documentary evidence whatsoever that any of the SS or Nazi party hierarchy had ever ordered them to behave in such a fashion.

Blatman says that the mentality of the prisoners' sadistic guards - that they were defending their homeland from 'subhumans' - somehow resonated with the civilian population as they saw this 'enemy' passing by their homes.

'A decade of indoctrination, a genocidal mentality that had systematically dehumanized the Jews and the Slavs, led to the collective hunt,' he said.
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More of Judith Perlaki's tale - Ate soup w/ live mice in it, washed w/ soap made from dead Jews, stayed in Auschwitz for several months after liberation

Judith Perlaki was a Jew from a Hungarian ghetto.

In 1944 the Nazis took her to Auschwitz.

Judy says the place was hell.

Perlaki says many members of her family were sent straight away to the gas chambers and the ovens upon arrival at Auschwitz.

Judith and her sisters were spared the gassum chambers, and were given jobs sorting clothing and other items at the camp.

She says she endured many atrocities while at Auschwitz, including being served soup with live mice in it, and being told her soap was made from the fat of her dead friend.

Judith says she and her sisters were rescued from Auschwitz in May of 1945.

Given that Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets several months earlier in January 1945, Perlaki must have actually enjoyed time at the "death camp" to stay for a couple extra months.

Perlaki now lives in the United States and travels all over to tell her tale to young schoolchildren.

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Survivor shares story of Holocaust

By Erin Rowley
Collegian Staff Writer
Collegian Online | Posted on November 7, 2008 4:56 A.M.

In 1944 a knock on the door changed Judith Perlaki's life forever.

Nazis took Perlaki and the rest of her family from their small village in Hungary to a ghetto and then later to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

The 83-year-old Perlaki, assisted by her son Larry and her granddaughter Jennifer, a Penn State student, told a classroom of about 70 students about her experiences as a Holocaust survivor Thursday night.

Upon their arrival at Auschwitz, thousands of people, including members of the Perlaki family, were sent straight to gas chambers or crematoriums.

"Look up at the chimney. That's your family," a Nazi, who knew Judith only by the number "A6933" imprinted on her arm, told her and her two sisters.

The girls were spared that fate and were given jobs sorting out clothing and other objects removed from the bodies of the dead. One day they found clothing they recognized as belonging to their family, Judith said.

Sarah Park (junior-telecommunications) said that story hit her the hardest.

"It's a situation where you could insert yourself and see how hard that would be," she said, though she didn't think anyone could really understand the hardships Judith went through.

Judith recounted story after story about the atrocities she experienced while at Auschwitz. She talked about sleeping on a dirty stone floor, being served soup with live mice in it and being told that the soap she was using was made from the fat of her murdered friend.

Despite her age and the hardships she went through, the white-haired senior citizen spoke with a steady, strong voice. Her voice, accented by a distinct Hungarian accent, didn't quiver as she talked about what had happened to her. She has maintained a good sense of humor, and routinely made students laugh.

In May 1945, Judith and her sisters were rescued after almost a year in Auschwitz. In 1991, the sisters and other family members, including Larry, visited Auschwitz for the first time since their rescue.

"It looked like any other town or village in Eastern Europe, but in fact this place was hell," Larry said.

While walking through the concentration camp-turned museum, Larry had a difficult time keeping his composure, he said. After looking at a display of burnt children's clothing, he finally broke down, he said.

He also stood inside of a crematorium, which he said invoked feelings that are "indescribable."

Judith said she thinks it's important not to lose yourself in hatred.

"I don't have no hatred in me, because I don't know who to hate," she said, adding, "I believe in God and I believe in humanity."
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"Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics and Beyond" - Another outlandish Holohoax Survivor™ story exposed as a fraud


Another day, another Holocaust Survivor™ Story exposed as a fraud:

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Windsor author discovers holocaust survivor fabricated tale

BY KATHERINE POPOWSKI • For the Coloradoan • September 18, 2009

Windsor author Jean Goodwin Messinger discovered recently that the subject of her popular nonfiction novel “Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics and Beyond” is not the woman she claimed to be.

In fact, the subject of the book, also known as Rose-Marie Pence, is a fraud.

Messinger said this week she was distraught to discover that Pence had fabricated the “Hannah” story.

Published in 2005, “Hannah” is the story is of a young girl who was imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, was rescued by American forces, and later became an Olympic skier.

The problem is none of her story is true, Messinger said.

Messinger offered an apology for her role in giving voice to the flawed memoir.

“I regarded this woman as a sister for the years I have known her,” Messinger said of Pence, a Longmont resident until recent weeks. “This revelation is shocking and disappointing to all of us who knew her and loved her, and counted her as a trusted friend.”

Pence’s story also caught the attention of Beth Moore of Houston-based Living Proof Ministries, who shared information about the Hannah book at conferences this summer in Albuquerque and Greensboro.

Now Moore has posted an apology on her blog and has offered to refund the cost of the book to anyone who might have purchased it after hearing Moore share Hannah’s tale.

“I would never in a million years knowingly mislead the people I have the privilege to serve. In a ministry of this kind, you can imagine that we’ve had many fraudulent stories come through the ministry and most of them never make it to second base. For extenuating reasons beyond what we can share here, this particularly well-crafted one got past us. We did not stumble on the book or the message. We were very much pursued – not by its author but – by its contriver.”

Messinger is an accomplished author who has written other books about WWII, including “Same War Different Battlefields.”

“I’ve always found history more exciting than fiction, and I regret that Hannah’s re-markable journey is not what it claimed to be in fact,” Messinger said. “There must be stories out there from WWII that would match it.”

The Boulder County District Attorney’s office is conducting an investigation of Pence, whose whereabouts are unknown.
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Jorge Klainman's Holyco$t fairytale: "The Seventh Miracle" - Survived being shot, crawled out of pit with 99 corpses


Jorge Klainman with his book "The Seventh Miracle"

Jorge is a Polish Jew who remained silent about the horrors he experienced during the Holocaust™ for 50 years. When he turned 68, the fog clouding his memory suddenly lifted, and he decided he could be silent no more.

Klainman put pen to paper and penned "The Seventh Miracle", a harrowing story of survival, which has captivated readers the world over.

At 15, Jorge faced execution by firing squad, but somehow the bullet missed it's target and he survived. The first miracle. Five others would follow. The last miracle was being able to write his tale down. Indeed.

Over the course of 4 years, Klainman spent time in six Nazi death camps.

Once, Jorge was even pulled alive from a deep well with 99 corpses.

Concerned with the rise of anti-Semitism and Holocaust deniers, Klainman says he tells his story because “ten years from now there won’t be any Holocaust survivors left to transmit the truth to young people.”

“So it’s important that everybody knows what happened. That way they’ll be able to understand the terrible struggle of the Israeli people against the fundamentalist Islamic savages who want to throw us into the sea.”


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A Spanish story of Holocaust survival

By Larry Luxner
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 12, 2006


BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 12 (JTA) — On his 68th birthday, Jorge Klainman decided he could remain silent no more about his Holocaust horrors.

The Polish-born, retired businessman sat at his electric typewriter, he said, “and suddenly the curtains of my memory began to part, revealing events that happened 50 or 60 years ago. After that my life changed completely. I felt liberated.”

The result was “El Septimo Milagro,” a harrowing Spanish-language tale of life and death in a series of Nazi concentration camps that has captivated readers from Buenos Aires to Barcelona.

Translated into English as “The Seventh Miracle” and into Hebrew as “Nes Ha-Shev’i,” Klainman’s first-person account differs from most other Holocaust memoirs in its extraordinary attention to detail. It ranges from the 1939 roundup of Jews from his Polish hometown of Kielce to Klainman’s frightful March 1944 encounter with psychopathic concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth, the SS officer portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Steven Spielberg’s movie “Schindler’s List.”

Goeth marked Klainman, then 15, for execution by firing squad.

“My mind refused to comprehend the reality of what was happening,” Klainman wrote. “The end had come. They were going to shoot me and burn me. I thought of my loved ones, and that soon I would be joining them. I reached a state of mind where I just wanted, with all my being, to get it over with.”

But Klainman’s Ukrainian executioners somehow missed their target, and later that night fellow Jewish prisoners risked their lives to bring his bleeding body to the camp infirmary. A kindly doctor there gradually nursed the teenager back to health.

Fate intervened five more times before he was liberated by American soldiers in 1945, and Klainman was saved from certain death.

In 1947 — with the help of international Jewish organizations — Klainman set sail from Italy to Rio de Janeiro, caught a plane to Asuncion, Paraguay, and smuggled himself across the heavily guarded border into Argentina, where he eventually married and raised a family.

“Six actual miracles occurred and saved my life,” according to Klainman, 78. “The seventh was my being able to write the story.”

And now, with anti-Semitism again rising throughout his adopted country, Klainman told JTA he feels compelled to share that story with Argentines who may not have yet gotten the message.

“Ten years from now there won’t be any Holocaust survivors left to transmit the truth to young people,” he said in an interview at his Buenos Aires apartment. “They’ll begin forgetting the Jewish Holocaust just as they’ve forgotten the Armenian Holocaust. So it’s important that everybody knows what happened. That way they’ll be able to understand the terrible struggle of the Israeli people against the fundamentalist Islamic savages who want to throw us into the sea.”

Klainman, a jewelry retailer by profession, lived in Tel Aviv from 1971 to 1990 and again from 1999 to 2004. He is fluent in Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Spanish and Italian, and was recently appointed official representative of the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires.

“I’ve dedicated the rest of my life to explaining the Shoah to students from all over the country,” he said. “Since I’ve moved back from Israel, thousands of students have heard my testimony.”

Klainman says he has “lots of work to do” in explaining the reasons behind the Holocaust to fellow Argentines, many of whom grew up with anti-Semitic attitudes encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church and the thousands of Nazi war criminals who were welcomed by Argentina’s military dictatorship after World War II.

“I’ve visited many colleges and universities throughout Argentina, giving speeches for high-school kids,” Klainman said. “I even spoke at a Catholic seminary, and afterwards the kids cursed the Vatican for ignoring the Jews.

“Usually when I finish speaking after an hour, for three or four minutes they sit there in silence. Then they surround me, hundreds of kids, hugging me, crying, asking for my autograph. Once I took a taxi in Corrientes and the driver recognized me. He took my hand and kissed it, and told me, ‘God bless you, may you never die.’ ”

He said the reaction of Argentina’s Christians to his book is much stronger than the Jews because “the Jews already know this story.”

Klainman said he was inspired to write “El Septimo Milagro” after his son Miguel began asking him troubling questions about his past.

For 50 years I guarded my silence like a hermit, but then I got tired of these delinquents denying the Holocaust,” he said. “I realized that by keeping silent, I was becoming an accomplice, collaborating with them.”

It took Klainman four months to write the book. His original draft version ran 107 pages; only 25 copies of that version were printed.

“When I read what I had written, I realized nobody would believe it was true,” he said. “So we [Klainman and his wife, Teresa] decided to travel to Poland to look for details. It was very traumatic, that first time back in Poland, more so for Teresa than for me.”

“Jorge didn’t talk about it. I knew very little,” said Teresa Klainman, an Argentina native who had no idea what a concentration camp was until she met her husband. “I knew he was a survivor, that he had no family and that he was in camps, but it was a taboo subject. Whenever I asked, he would tell me a few things, but he wouldn’t want to go into details, and I didn’t want to upset him, so I learned not to ask.”

The Klainmans would return to Poland twice more, most recently as part of a program to bring Jewish children to Poland to teach them firsthand about the horrors of the Holocaust.

In October, Jorge and Teresa Klainman came to the United States for a two-week visit that included lectures at secondary schools, colleges and Jewish community centers throughout New Jersey. The trip was organized by Kal Wagenheim, the Millburn, N.J., freelance journalist and playwright who had translated Klainman’s book from Spanish to English.

Klainman proudly showed off a thick folder full of letters from a seventh-grade civics class in Millburn.

“Thank you for the presentation. I found it interesting that you seemed to keep barely missing death — especially the time you got shot in the leg near the pit,” wrote one student. “Maybe it was fate that allowed you to live to tell your tale, or maybe it was just luck. Either way I am grateful that you came all the way from Buenos Aires to present us with your story.”
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Erna Rubinstein's Auschwitz tale - Water, not gas, came out of showers - Escaped death from "an ocean of fire as fare as the eye could see"


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Also with a sad tale is Erna Rubinstein.

Erna was taken to the Auschwitz Death Camp on a Death Train. The Death Train had no air.

Then Erna was taken to the Gas Chambers. But only water came out of the gas nozzles!

Then Erna was taken to the Death Flame pits. The death Flame Pits were an ocean of fire. Fire as far as the eye could see, in all directions. The evil nazis marched the Jews toward the Death Flame Pits. The Jews were right at the barbed wire gates. But no! The evil nazis sent them down a different road, and the Jews were spared.


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Excerpted from "The Survivor in Us All - A Memoir of the Holocaust" by Erna F. Rubinstein

"Deprived of all strength and the desire to live, confused and exhausted, we were pushed into another room. Before we had a chance to notice exactly what was happening, men with shavers began to shave our hair. One shaved our heads, another our underarms, and a young boy in a pair of shorts shaved the hair of our genitals. The men were experienced; it seemed to take no time at all. Oblivious to everything, we moved like robots from one shaver to another, yielding without a word. Nothing mattered any more. The long room was full of hair, some blond, some brown, some black. None was gray as there were no older women left among us. Then we were rushed into another room with showers.

After all we had gone through during the last few days, it seemed that it was the gas that would now finish us. We looked at each other, realizing what our destiny was to be at last. No one uttered a word; we were resigned and ready.

Suddenly the showers were opened, and freezing water rinsed our naked bodies. We were alive.


...

It was now morning. Our discolored bodies were covered in the most ridiculous garments, and with the queer wodden shoes on our feet, we were quite a sight. We walked in fives.

`How funny you look.' Pola started laughing.

`And you, look at yourself!' Anna snapped.

`Stop it, girls. We all look funny, but we're alive, aren't we?' Mania
said.

`Who cares? We might as well be dead,' Pola answered.

`Stop it, will you?' I said sadly; for we had just turned off the muddy road and were marching in a different direction. All we could see, at a distance clearly visible against the morning sky that was in front of us, was fire. An ocean of fire. As far as the eye could see there was fire, and no other way to go. The hard morning light revealed a landscape dark with people and illuminated each vacant face.

`What a beautiful sight,' Pola said acidly.

Behind us, a woman was holding her daughter's hand, and I heard her say: `After all we have been through ... after this monstrous shaving ... we have to go into the fire now?'

Her sixteen-year-old daughter replied calmly: `At least we shall be warm, mother.'

That was, in fact, how we all felt by now -- a moving wall of broken-down forms driven by cold and despair.

Despite all this, to me the fire also meant something else -- a tender reconciliation with my mother. In each little flame, I saw her kisses, her love, gliding toward me then heavenward. I heard her last words: `My angels, my dolls, may God help you.' We knew, now, that she must have been taken into the gas chamber during the night, and it was her body along with thousands of others, young and old, beautiful and ugly, that was burning in this inferno.

And somewhere, too, through the searing flames, I could see the last worry on my dearest friend's face, when she said to me: `Take care of my son.' She, also, must have found her tragic end last night. I thought of how the two women had died together.

We were now just a few steps away from the barbed wire separating us from the fire. At any given moment, the gate would open and we would be led into the fire where violent red flames were sending blue flecks into the dark, smoke-filled sky. It appeared that the Germans were playing tricks on us. During the last few days we had died an innumerable number of deaths; at first, the suffocation on the train, then the segregations, afterward, the showers, and now a fire. Most of us had experienced something akin to dying each time, and it was as if part of us had died each time. Yet this wasn't going to be the last time either. As soon as we were almost so close that there seemed to be no turning from it, we were led onto a different road and away from the fire. Nevertheless, the Germans had accomplished their goal, for in that fire, a great part of our soul had been obliterated -- the part of us that knew how to love, respect, and hope. Here was where our parents, our brothers and sisters, and most of our friends had died. We knew now what the gas chambers of Auschwitz had meant. As we moved away from the fire, the smell of burning corpes stayed with us all through our march -- as it would stay all through our stay in Auschwitz. Whether the smell was of freshly burned bodies or carried over from previous burnings, it was always there, and we could never help but be aware of it."

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"The Survivor in Us All - A Memoir of the Holocaust," Erna F. Rubinstein
(Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1983) ISBN 0-208-02025-X pp.120-122
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Erna Rubinstein's Auschwitz tale - Water, not gas, came out of showers - Escaped death from "an ocean of fire as fare as the eye could see"


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Also with a sad tale is Erna Rubinstein.

Erna was taken to the Auschwitz Death Camp on a Death Train. The Death Train had no air.

Then Erna was taken to the Gas Chambers. But only water came out of the gas nozzles!

Then Erna was taken to the Death Flame pits. The death Flame Pits were an ocean of fire. Fire as far as the eye could see, in all directions. The evil nazis marched the Jews toward the Death Flame Pits. The Jews were right at the barbed wire gates. But no! The evil nazis sent them down a different road, and the Jews were spared.

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Mira Kimmelman's story - Survived a two and a half week ride on cattle train and a two-day death march in 30 below zero temps

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A journey of pain and intolerance
By Leean Tupper
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Posted May 05, 2009 @ 09:00 AM

When World War II broke out in 1939, Kimmelman said her family and other Jewish families were forced from their homes and taken to Warsaw, Poland.

She spent five and a half years in ghettos, and labor and concentration camps in Germany and Poland. She and her father were the only two members of her immediate family -- 18 total -- who survived the camps.

Life continued that way until a day in October 1942 when her father and brother were taken for forced labor.

"We were ordered to dress in warm clothing, warm coats and work shoes if we had them," she said. "We were told we would be taken to the east to work and that our families would not be separated.

"I walked with my mother," Kimmelman recalled. "Eighteen people in my family walked to the station."

"An SS officer ordered me out of line," said Kimmelman, referencing the infamous Nazi military organization under Adolf Hitler. "I had no time to say a word to my mother, to embrace her.

"I never saw my mother again."

Kimmelman said she was one of about 600 lives -- of about 15,000 to 20,000 people in the ghetto -- spared that day.

The others -- including her mother and grandparents -- were gassed to death and then burned at Treblinka death camp.

"I have no grave for my mother," she said, the pain showing in her eyes, "no grave for my grandparents."

Kimmelman, her father, an uncle and her brother were then taken to Blyzin Concentration Camp. At the camp, the prisoners were forced to work, became ill, and suffered from unsanitary conditions.

The prisoners also witnessed punishment for anyone who disobeyed.

"All punishment took place at roll call, and we had to watch.

"It's human nature not to believe something you haven't seen," Kimmelman said, noting that she saw many people killed during the mandatory twice-daily roll calls.

In July 1944, Kimmelman, her father and brother were evacuated with thousands of others to Auschwitz.

"Auschwitz was a death factory," said Kimmelman, who saw her 16-year-old brother for the last time at the gates of the reviled extermination camp.

Anyone who was ill, wore glasses, had gray hair, walked on crutches or was unable to work was automatically sent to the gas chambers.

"Three thousand were killed around the clock at Auschwitz," she said. "We were slaves. We were branded like cattle."

Kimmelman said the prisoners were forced to take cold showers, then they were shaved, and given wooden shoes and striped uniforms to wear.

"They wanted to reduce us to subhumans," she said. "We had no way of fighting physically. We defied them with our spirits," she explained.

Kimmelman said her memories of happier times and her family kept her alive.

In January 1945, Auschwitz was evacuated before the Russian army came.

"It was 30 below zero, and there was three feet of snow," Kimmelman said. "Sixty thousand people marched out.

"Anyone who could not keep up was shot," she said. After two days of walking, the survivors were loaded into open cattle cars "like sardines in a can."

"We were unable to move," she said. "We relieved ourselves where we sat, and it froze."

Kimmelman and the others arrived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp two and a half weeks later. That camp was liberated on April 15, 1945. Kimmelman was 21 years old.
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Kitty Hart Moxon's tear-jerking Holohoax tale - Had to scrape Auschwitz toilets with bare hands; used same bowl for food and as a toilet; 3.6 million were holocausted in Auschwitz in just 8 months!!


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Kitty recalled how she had to tie a bowl to her belly at all times. This was her lifeline. It was a container for soup as well as a toilet. There was no way to wash out the bowl between the different uses.

She was able to barter her way into several jobs within the camp. She said that the job of scheisse kommander was a very prestigious position. They got to dig out the excrement from the toilets with their bare hands, but it meant working inside, away from the bitter cold outdoors.

She also gained a job in the storage barracks – named Kanada because the name symbolised a place of great riches – where the belongings of new arrivals were stored.

But the barracks also contained the by-products of the people who were being killed in the gas chambers and crematoriums, such as dental gold and human hair (used as fleece linings in military jackets).

Kitty stated that although the conservative estimate of numbers killed by the Nazis at Birkenau is a million and a half, she believes it is much more.

She said: "When you think of 9/11, 3,000 people died in New York.
"In the eight months I was in this Kanada, between 10 and 20,000 people died every day.

"How do we know? Easy. We saw how many trains came in. We knew how many people were in each cattle truck.

"I know the modest statistic is a million and a half. But we know it is much more than that. We cannot prove it, because all of these people were turned into ash."
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Joanna Sobolewska's tale - "Rescued from Nazi death camp in 1923"....1-9-2-3


Poor old Jewess Sobolewska, now 89 years old (which means she was born in 1920), claims she was rescued from a Nazi death camp when she was 3 years old. Only problem is that would have been in the year 1923.

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Ottawa Citizen
November 4, 2009

Holocaust survivor Joanna Sobolewska. at the Ashbury College Chapel. Two Polish holocaust survivors and a man who helped to protect some members of the Jewish community during the Nazi occupation spoke to approx 100 students this morning. The Polish Ambassador to Canada and the Polish Sec of State also attended.

OTTAWA — At age three, Joanna Sobolewska was saved from a Nazi death camp by Polish foster parents who agreed to adopt her.

Along with her freedom, she received a new name and Catholic identity. But in escaping imminent death, she also lost a great portion of her life.

Unaware of her Jewish heritage until she was 18, Sobolewska, now 89, still feels the shock of learning who she actually was.
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Klaus Stern's tale - "pulled from gas chamber line at last minute when SS guard saw his fat face and though he was too healthy to die"

Nearly fossilized old Jew Klaus Stern is a seasoned veteran on the Holo speaking circuit, speaking all over the NorthWest -- including Washington via the Speaker's Bureau of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center.

Stern had been selected for execution for his bad health.

But a miracle!

On the morning his tattoo number was called for work duty, Stern’s face had become bloated by malnutrition, fooling a guard with its "grotesque illusion of health" and his life was saved.

Stern recalled the guard saying, “Hey you with your big fat face, don’t you know what it means to be in that (work) group?’”


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The Daily Inter Lake

Stern and his new wife, Paula, were arrested for "treason" in 1942 and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. There, "the man at the podium," a Nazi judge who decided life or death, spared the Sterns, who were still healthy from years of labor on a farm. The two were separated and would not see each other for 28 horrible months.

Pictures of the newly wed Sterns in 1942, faces robust with health and good cheer, flickered on the auditorium screen in a 15-minute video presentation that gave witness to Stern's story. A picture taken of the reunited couple three years later showed faces smiling with gratitude for their survival of the Holocaust, but etched with horror and aged in a way only terror can. Stern spoke calmly of his narrow escape from death. Unaware that only days remained until the American liberation, Stern, his body wasted from 165 pounds to a gaunt 95, had stumbled in front of the Nazi doctor for the regular "selection" for the gas chamber, and after two years of heroic struggle, Stern lost the roll of the dice.

Minutes from a gruesome death - asphyxiation by the pesticide Cyclon B - fate intervened, and Stern was pulled out of line at the last minute. "One of the guards saw my face swollen (with edema) and thought I was too healthy to die," Stern said. A few days later, the gates to the camps were flung open, and the rebuilding of lives began. The American saviors wept when they saw the emaciated survivors. "Many people could not keep themselves from eating too much, and they died within days," said Stern, who was shipped to a rest camp in Bavaria for a two-month recuperation. Stern said the experience in the Nazi death camps crushed some, but left him a better man.
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Alex Levin's sad tale - Lived in forest for 18 months when only 9-10 years old, ants kept his clothes clean

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June 13, 2009
Lauren La Rose
The Canadian Press

TORONTO

Alex Levin recalled how his brother's strong, trembling hand took hold of his own and they started to run.

It would be a sprint for their survival.

Levin was just nine years old when Nazis overran his Polish birthplace of Rokitno in June 1941.

The following August, with a massacre of the town's Jews imminent, his older brother dragged him away from the crowd.

For 18 months, they would have only their wits and resilience to rely on.

They lived among 10 people in a cave in the forests in Poland, gathering and eating wild mushrooms and berries. They would go to villages and beg for food -- or steal it.

And they relied on mountains of ants in the forests to eat the eggs and lice off their clothes to get them clean.
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Joe Diamond's tale - Escaped being deathed in Auschwitz gas chamber by jumping out 20-ft high window and hiding in latrine


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Diamond was 14 when two German soldiers walked into his family’s kitchen to tell them they were now prisoners, being sent to Germany to help with the harvest. Diamond and his 7-year-old brother were among 500 people, walking toward the local school for processing with their luggage in tow. But looking into the faces of non-Jewish neighbors, Diamond said he saw none of the anxiety and sorrow painfully obvious among his people.

“They didn’t look upset. They acted like it was the Fourth of July,” Diamond said of the on-lookers. “On man shouted to me, ‘Hey, leave me our winter coat.’ He meant I was going to be dead, so I wouldn’t need a winter coat.”

It was the first of many gruesome memories that Diamond accumulated along the way and vividly recalls to this day. The group was packed into a cattle car that could hold 38 people standing. More than 100 people were shoved inside with a single bucket of water for the trip. Several children died on the way to Krakow, and when the train pulled into a station there a woman heard the cries of children and came running with two buckets of water. A German soldier spotted the woman and kicked the buckets out of her hands, and even though the action was over quickly, it drew a line in Diamond’s mind between the internal goodness of people battling with the monsters that German troops had become.

“Two buckets of water wouldn’t have done anything, but here was somebody that was a human being and had a heart,” Diamond said of the woman.

The difference became clearer when the train reached its final destination. People from Diamond’s car moved more slowly than the rest, telling the troops that a woman had given birth on the train. As people watched, a soldier picked up the child and kicked it into a field.

“You’ve got a person who is educated, the cream of the crop in Germany, and that’s what he did,” Diamond said.

Soon after Diamond walked by a sign welcoming him to Auschwitz, one of the most notorious symbols of Nazi cruelty. His family stood in front of Dr. Josef Mengele, a man now remembered as one of history’s greatest villains. But at that time, to the new arrivals huddled before him, Mengele was seen simply as the man giving out assignments. Men and women were to be separated, told that they would be getting different work assignments.

Diamond’s mother and young brother were told they’d be sent to a residential community, able to see Diamond and his father on weekends. In reality, they were sent straight to a gas chamber and then to the furnaces for cremation. Walking to the animal stable that he and 3,000 others would call home, Diamond recalled looking up at the smoke pouring into the sky.

“Four chimneys were smoking real wild, but we had no idea that’s what it was,” Diamond recalled.

In a work crew with other teenage boys, Diamond was put to work hauling bricks and mortar for the construction of new Nazi gas chambers. Even as the war turned against them almost daily, the Germans were building more machines to kill thousands at a time. New arrivals from Amsterdam, Poland and France arrived and were recruited for slave labor, killed in the camp or sent elsewhere.

After just three weeks, Diamond said his body was already being broken down. Soldiers played cruel jokes on the prisoners, throwing a sandwich into a group to watch the starving boys turn on one another as they fought for food.

“When you’re starving, you don’t care about your friends. You only think about yourself and you grow up real fast,” he said.

Each week those too weak to work were culled from the group and sent to their deaths. Eventually Diamond was selected for death, but the German convict who ran the barracks told him to jump out of his window after nightfall and follow a light to safety.

The man, who Diamond said he later found out had been sent to the prison for killing two of his wives, had never seen Diamond before that day and would never see him again.

After his leap from an 18-foot high window, Diamond made his way to an outhouse, where he hid in a pit of filth for an entire day before venturing out again.

“I was a real mess the next day, but I survived,” he said.

His clothes ruined, Diamond tried to work his way into another work group, trying to conceal himself during the daily roll call. As the Russian armies closed in on the eastern front, the Jewish prisoners were sent on a death march to one concentration camp after another. Diamond recalled taking clothes off a dead man along the way to replace his own filthy garments.

If they didn’t walk fast enough, prisoners were shot by the guards. As they arrived at one camp and found it was too full, the slave laborers stayed outside and nearly froze. Another camp had skeletons outside the gates, hinting at the horrors within.

“I don’t know why they didn’t kill us,” Diamond said. “It would have been just as easy.”

In the final days of the war, soldiers used the prisoners for target practice. Then, when the German army moved out and left them on their own, the prisoners ventured out and were met by troops from the American Third Army.
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Marsha Kreuzman's tale - survived 5 concentration camps, was hung upside down for 7 hours

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PublishedAugust 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM

To Springfield resident and teacher at Oratory Prep School Susan Preston, she's known as "Aunt Marsha." To the students at that school in Summit, she's known as the woman who spoke recently at an assembly program, telling them of the horrors she faced being a teenager in five different concentration camps during Hitler's reign.

Marsha Kreuzman, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in Livingston, NJ, has made it her duty to see that the story of the liquidation of six million Jews and five million people whom the Nazis deemed as "undesirables" is told today so that the atrocities will never happen again.

"Hitler didn't know tolerance," she told the hushed audience. "In 1942, he wanted to make Krakow free of Jews, and only blonde haired/blue eyed people were acceptable," she explained. She went on to tell her incredible story which included walking to a concentration camp where they had shootings with mass graves. There was an audible gasp from the audience when she told of witnessing a mother with a child in her arms being shot. "The woman fell dead into the open grave, but the child was still moving. This open grave pit was moving with people who were not yet dead."

Mrs. Kreuzman recalled being hung upside down by her feet for seven hours.

"I wanted to be shot: I wanted to be dead," she said. This feeling of despair was especially pervasive after seeing her own father shot dead in front of her on the Holy Day of Yom Kippur. "We were treated worse than dogs," she told the audience of 250 students and teachers.
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Peter Wigmore's tale - his mother survived Auschwitz gas chamber 3 times by being "pulled from the line by workers"

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Son of Holocaust survivor to talk at Tigard Library

Geoff Pursinger

The Times - News
November 12 2009

One family's ordeal at Auschwitz leads their descendant to talk about experiences at the notorious death camp

Peter Wigmore, of Gladstone, will be speaking at the Tigard Library, Nov. 17 describing his family's ordeal at the hands of Nazis while interred at Auschwitz - the infamous Nazi concentration camp where more than 1 million people lost their lives during World War II.

'It's so difficult to focus on the horrors that happened there without focusing on a specific person,' said Wigmore, 59, a retired teacher from the Lake Oswego School District. 'So I will focus on my mother and her family and what happened to them while they were at Auschwitz.'

Wigmore's mother, Rosa, was sent to the concentration camp in Poland in 1944 with her family when she was 20 years old. During her time in the camp she was one of many Jewish prisoners subject to experimentation by Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor known for his frequent use of inmates for human experimentation.

Wigmore's mother was sent to the gas chambers on three separate occurrences, Wigmore said, but was pulled from the line each time by workers at the camp.

She and her elder sister were the only two people from her family to survive.

The effects of her time at Auschwitz left Wigmore's mother with chronic health problems - which Wigmore attributes to Mengele's experimentation.
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