Surviving in a Mass Grave

MP in plea to churches to unite against racist BNP

By Lindsay Mcgarvie, Sunday Mail

May 30 2004

www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14287478&method=full &siteid=86024&headline=never-again-name_page.html

A SCOTS MP has called on church leaders to unite against the BNP in next week’s Euro elections.

Eastwood MP Jim Murphy will meet with religious leaders tomorrow, including Holocaust survivor Rabbi Ernest Levy.

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As a teenager, he [Rabbi Ernest Levy] survived seven Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Belsen, where he found himself lying in a mass grave beside the dead and dying.

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He Remembers the Screams

Holocaust survivor: Don’t forget

By PAT MUIR

5/25/2004

www.kvnews.com/articles/2004/05/25/news/news04.txt

Decades after World War II when Thomas Blatt met one of his former captors from the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp, he wasn’t scared of the man himself; he was scared of how normal the man seemed.

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He was spared at the camp and made a servant while his family and thousands of others — the death toll from Sobibor is believed to be more than 250,000 — were killed. Blatt remembers the cold efficiency of the camp’s gas chambers.

“I heard a terrible scream,” he said. “It lasted for about 15 minutes. It went very fast.”

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Gas chambers at Terezienstadt

Horrors of Holocaust detailed for students

By Ron Jensen, Stars and Stripes European edition, Friday, April 30, 2004

www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=21085&archive=true

Joanna Millan was a baby when the Nazis took her and her mother to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Her mother died, but Joanna was adopted by a Jewish couple in England. She told her remarkable story on Wednesday to students at Lakenheath High School in England.

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She was separated from her mother soon after arriving at Thereisenstadt […]

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“I was one of less than 100 that came out alive in 1945,” she said. “I believe I was saved because I had no one to take me to the gas chambers.”

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It’s okay to kill civilians

Settler Rabbi: Killing innocent people in war is allowed if saves lives

Rabbi Dov Lior, chairman of the settler’s rabbinical council ruled that killing civilians during warfare is permitted if it will save lives.

Uri Glickman

www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=7626

(2004-05-19 21:52:27.0)

The IDF are allowed to hurt so called innocent civilians during warfare, Chairman of the Yesha rabbinical council (Judea, Samaria and Gaza Strip), Rabbi Dov Lior, said in a Halachic (Jewish law) ruling made public Wednesday.

“The law of our Torah is to have mercy on our soldiers and to save them. This is the real moral behind Israel’s Torah and we must not feel guilty due to foreign morals,” Lior said.

Sources close to the Rabbi explained that Lior made the remarks Tuesday night and they had nothing to do with Wednesday’s events in Gaza. The IDF is allowed to use all means at its disposal to defeat terrorism “even if it means ‘innocent’ people are killed”, the sources said.

The religious community did not publicly condemn Rabbi Lior’s ruling but warned against its implications. “It is a dangerous step that could test all religious IDF commanders taking part in the current fighting”, sources in the Yesha community told Maariv.


Webmaster note: I wonder if this rabbinical sanction extends to German treatment of enemy aliens such as Jews during the Second World War?

NOW we have the proof

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

www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-05-13-nazi-sympathizers_x.htm

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.

The Lucky Survivor

Holocaust survivor shares memories

Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin holds photograph of her family taken before the war.

by Ann Duble

Standard Editor

May 13, 2004

www.dcmilitary.com/army/standard/9_10/local_news/28993-1.html

Mounds of bodies. One hole for a toilet and another for graves. Every body cavity searched for gems. These are some of Nesse Godin’s memories as a survivor of the World War II Holocaust.

The 75-year-old Godin talked about her experiences surviving a concentration camp, ghetto, four labor camps and a death march at the Days of Remembrance program April 4 at the Post Chapel.

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Godin was only 16 years old in 1944, when she and others were put on a cattle car to an unknown destination. They ended up at Stutthof Concentration Camp where they were told to strip and take a shower. It really was a water shower and not poison gas. “We were lucky,” she noted sadly. The women and girls stood naked for hours, then were searched in every cavity of their bodies for “gems.”

Dead man walking

Holocaust survivor shares story to honor others

Author speaks to students at CCC about his escape

By Sheridan Lyons

Sun Staff

Originally published May 9, 2004

www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/carroll/
bal-ca.survivor09may09,0,3944032.story?coll=bal-local-carroll

Leo Bretholz was old enough to remember but is young enough to tell his tale: seven years of eluding the Holocaust in Europe, after his mother persuaded her teen-age son to leave his native Austria in 1938 after it was annexed by Nazi Germany.

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Bretholz survived — although he has a 1978 French record book that lists him among the ghosts of Auschwitz. He showed the book listing the victims of the concentration camp in Poland, his yellow felt star and other items to more than 50 students and others at Carroll Community College last week.

My name is here,” he said, pointing to the telephone directory-sized book, then to himself, but “I am here to tell the story.”

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Gas showers at Auschwitz

Teen moved by visit to Nazi death camp

East Brunswick senior sees Auschwitz, retraces march to Birkenau

BY SANDI CARPELLO

Correspondent

May 6, 2004

ebs.gmnews.com/news/2004/0506/Front_Page/043.html

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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