Remarkable nonsense

U.S. tipped to Holocaust in ’42

By Richard Willing, USA TODAY

Posted 5/13/2004 10:54 AM

Updated 5/13/2004 11:14 PM

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WASHINGTON –; U.S. intelligence officials learned within months of the U.S. entry into World War II that Nazi Germany planned mass killings to eliminate Jews, scholars reviewing newly declassified reports said Thursday.

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“It was an intelligence failure,” said Richard Breitman, an American University Holocaust historian who studied the documents. “The early information was not assimilated or used correctly.”

Breitman was part of a team of scholars, citizens and government officials who reviewed more than 240,000 pages of documents at the National Archives related to Nazi and other World War II-era crimes. The material was from files of the FBI, CIA and its predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services.

The documents show a federal intelligence unit was formed to interview Jews who immigrated from Axis countries in 1941 and 1942. One, Joseph Goldschmied, described how Germans seized money and property from Jews in his hometown, Prague, Czechoslovakia, and sent thousands to die in the Theresienstadt detention camp.

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Webmaster note: It is worth repeating that there are no Nazi documents or code intercepts that support Holocaust extermination claims. Therefore, there cannot be proof of such a program in the National Archives. In fact, there are no such documents or other evidence cited by this article in support of its main claim. Don’t they trot out this “we have now, finally, at long last, this-time-for-certain, found the evidence to support Holocaust extermination claims” story every couple of years? At the very least, these articles acknowledge that up until now, they have found no proof worthy of the name, otherwise, these findings would be neither revelations nor even newsworthy.

Teen moved by visit to Nazi death camp

East Brunswick senior sees Auschwitz, retraces march to Birkenau

BY SANDI CARPELLO

Correspondent

May 6, 2004

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Some 7,000 teens from 20 countries participated in the recent tours of death camps including Auschwitz (entrance pictured) as part of the March of the Living.

EAST BRUNSWICK — Inside the concrete walls of Auschwitz, underneath the once-deadly metal shower heads, Aliza Gases knew she would make it out alive.

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Holocaust Survivor Alice Kern Shares Inspirational Story With Rogue River Students

By Joan Jones, Staff Writer / SouthernOregonNews.com

4:19 pm PT, Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004

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Rogue River, Oregon — How does anyone explain the Holocaust and the death of six million innocent people to children who have never known a life without at least the basic comforts? At Rogue River Middle School recently, Holocaust survivor Alice Kern gave a voice to the past for a gymnasium full of elementary and middle schools students. For a full hour they listened silently to Kern’s story. When one student asked how Kern had managed to escape the gas chambers three times, she said, “Miracles. I believe in miracles.”

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Born in [Sighet!] Romania, Kern was 21 years old when she was shipped to Auschwitz with her mother, who was sent to the gas chambers upon arrival. Kern’s father, a very religious man, died earlier of a heart attack after the synagogues were closed. Two brothers escaped the Holocaust, but Kern was not to see them again for 20 years.

“You are the last generation to see a survivor,” she told the assembled students. “I am 81 years old and I will never stop lecturing and speaking. Few survivors are still able to do this.”

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In 1945, the Nazis knew the American and Russian armies were approaching. “They had to kill very fast,” Kern said. Cattle cars full of Greeks, Italians, French and even Germans were brought into the camp to be executed in the gas chambers.

“By the end of the summer cattle cars came in and all the people were killed, no matter how many,” said Kern.

With the Russian army nearing, the Nazis threw open the gates to Auschwitz and forced the inmates to walk mile after mile. […]

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Worse, there was no water and lice were rampant. “My head was covered with lice,” she said. “People got a high temperature and were dying like flies.”

Bergen Belsen was the camp where Anne Frank was taken and where she and her sister died. “There were so many little Anne Franks,” Kern said. “The bodies were piled higher and higher.”

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For more information on Alice Kern or to order her book, Tapestry of Hope, or her video, visit her website at www.alicekern.com/index.html

www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/8450169.htm

Posted on Fri, Apr. 16, 2004

Amy Porche has a sister named Nancy in Louisiana who’s mentally retarded from a complicated birth that deprived her of oxygen. When Amy was a child of about 8 years old, her mother told her that during World War II Hitler put to death those he deemed imperfect.

“I remember her saying to me, ‘Your sister would have been among the first,’ and I knew then how unjust that would be,” said Porche, 34. “I felt such a sense of rage and protection. All the emotions came through.”

Porche, an instructor in English at Chattahoochee Valley Community College, is the speaker Sunday at the annual Holocaust Remembrance Service at Columbus’ Temple Israel. A member of Holy Family Catholic Church, she met Rabbi Tom Friedmann of Temple Israel earlier this year when he came to speak to her students. She is not the first Christian to speak for the temple’s annual service, and Friedmann said he picked her for a local perspective.

“She is dedicated to students, teaching about Holocaust,” Friedmann said. “She has an inside view.”

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Holocaust History: A Lesson In Denial

History teacher Patrick Richardson will introduce his lesson on Holocaust denial by issuing students a press release from the future that declares Sept. 11, 2001, never happened.

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By JESSE LEAVENWORTH

Courant Staff Writer

April 12 2004

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Survivor is more than a number

Dario Gabbai, who was interned at Auschwitz, shares painful memories with Chaffey class.

Jeff Benson

Claremont-Upland Voice

April 9, 2004

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“182568.”

The teary-eyed man recited the number quickly and without looking, dejectedly revealing to a startled Chaffey College class last Friday why it’s tattooed on his left arm.

“I tell my story because there’s very few left anymore who can tell it,” he said.

An Auschwitz survivor, Dario Gabbai doesn’t feel like just a number anymore. But the fact he still bears one reminds him of other numbers — the estimated 6 million people slaughtered under the Nazi regime; the 54,000 Jews herded like cattle from his hometown of Salonika, Greece, to the Auschwitz labor and death camp in 1944, and the 12,000 people killed there every day, including his own mother and sister.

And at 82, the Italian-Greek Jew still feels he had a hand in unspeakable evils.

With the German Security Service aiming a gun at his back at all times, Gabbai was forced to assist the Nazis in their extermination of Jews at the nearby Auschwitz-Birkenau labor and death camp.

“There was no choice,” he said. “If you didn’t do it, the guy behind you was going to kill you. That’s it.”

As sonderkommandos in Birkenau during World War II, Gabbai and his two cousins ushered Hungarian Jews into gas chambers disguised as “showers,” removed the bodies after the Zyklon-B poisoned gas aired out and discarded them into crematoriums in order to dispose of the evidence of Nazi crimes.

He said, at times, close to 2,000 people packed into gas chambers with capacities of 500. Gabbai tried to make the best of an impossible situation, though, going as far as telling those who were about to die exactly where they should move inside the chamber so they could die quickly with the least amount of suffering.

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“Did you ever wish you were the one being killed?” one student asked him.

“Yeah,” he said immediately. “Many times.”

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PETA BRINGS CONTROVERSIAL ‘HOLOCAUST ON YOUR PLATE’ EXHIBIT TO AMSTERDAM

Date: Thursday, March 8

Time: Noon

Place: Leidseplein (Leiden Square)

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Amsterdam — PETA’s controversial “Holocaust on Your Plate” exhibit is coming to Amsterdam. The display, which consists of eight 6-meter-square panels, each showing photos of factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes side by side with photos from Nazi death camps, graphically depict the point made by Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer when he wrote, “In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis.”

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

— Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher forced into exile by the Nazis

Queens Fire Kills Survivor of Holocaust

An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed early yesterday morning when a fire tore through his Queens home.

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Rotter was forced to make the infamous “Death March” from Auschwitz into the Polish countryside, when the Nazis evacuated the camp in 1945, {grandson Boruch] Salzberg said.

By Jeremy Olshan

April 5, 2004

www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/22277.htm