Yes SAME LAWYER Patricia Dillon Laub Esq
Yes SAME LAW FIRM Frost Brown Todd
If anyone knows anyone else HARMED by these two entities please call me at
513 608 9476
no answering machine
I may pick up between 1 and 7 PM most days.
This resonates with me ...because my mother WANTED to live with me in my 5 bedroom home but Patricia Dillon Laub Esq refused to allow such a transfer from the overly expensive assisted living facility tom my home which could easily have the 24/7 nursing care....
Laub said NOT POSSIBLE...and it was actually so very possible. My mother was ANXIOUS in the assisted living....she was LONELY there. It sucked for my mother and Laub cared not a damn!
" The prosecution stressed the severity of the harm caused to the
elderly Holocaust survivors, and noted that Selage had planned to
defraud them in advance. It asked for the imposition of a prison
sentence for Selage. The court accepted the prosecution's arguments. "These elderly
Holocaust survivors, who live their entire lives under the shadow of the
Nazi regime, and even though total of the funds stolen from any one of
the victims is not that high,relatively speaking - it question of funds
that may be significant for the elderly people and would be used to
support them in their last years." The court added that "there is no pardon and no forgiveness for the damage done to these victims."
"The Be'er Sheva Magistrate Court sentenced to prison attorney George
Selage, 70, whose license to practice law was revoked in 2011 following
complaints from customers that he had taken advantage of his position to
defraud Holocaust survivors.
According to the complaint, Selage filed claims for compensation from
the German Government on behalf of at least 13 Holocaust survivors.
However, he prepared affidavits and adopted the survivors signatures
without meeting with them or receiving their permission.
Selage also submitted documents to the District Court in Be'er Sheva
to receive official confirmation, according to which the documents were
held illegally in Israel and then passed to his partner abroad. He then
received a total of 128,000 shekels (approximately $33,500).
In his ruling, Judge Ron Solkin found that the prosecution had proven
the existence of the circumstances which caused harm to the Holocaust
survivors, the amount of the fraud, the size of the salary received for
acts of fraud, abuse of trust, fabricating evidence, and perjury.
As part of sentencing phase, the prosecution filed the statements of
the survivors, according to which they had contacted Selage to receive
their compensation from the government of Hungary, but they did not
receive their compensation.
The prosecution stressed the severity of the harm caused to the
elderly Holocaust survivors, and noted that Selage had planned to
defraud them in advance. It asked for the imposition of a prison
sentence for Selage.
The court accepted the prosecution's arguments. "These elderly
Holocaust survivors, who live their entire lives under the shadow of the
Nazi regime, and even though total of the funds stolen from any one of
the victims is not that high,relatively speaking - it question of funds
that may be significant for the elderly people and would be used to
support them in their last years."
The court added that "there is no pardon and no forgiveness for the damage done to these victims."
Selage
was sentenced to a year in prison, plus probation and fines. He was
required to pay 15,000 shekels ($3930) in damages to each of his 13
victims."
IMO Patricia Dillon Laub Esq essence reverberates with this article "The Plot to Cheat Germany's Holocaust Survivors' Fund"
My mother received money from this fund.
Patricia Dillon Laub Esq imo monetized my mother's funds to go to other places while her son and grandchild suffer. The simple version of course, and IMO....wait for the book for the complicated insidious version
Photographs
of Polish children, numbered and photographed after arriving at the
Auschwitz concentration camp. The FBI has charged 17 people for making
fraudulent claims for money from a fund established to compensate
victims of the Holocaust
Fanya Bochkaryova was 16 years old when Nazis killed her father
in 1941. "We lived in Odessa [in Ukraine]. My grandmother, my sister,
my uncle," she says. "The Germans came and — pth! — they are
shot." In fractured English, Bochkaryova explains that she then dropped
out of school and fled with her mother and only brother to Samarkand, in
what is now Uzbekistan. In 1979, she immigrated to the U.S. Bochkaryova
now lives in Brighton Beach, N.Y. — a Russian-Jewish community that's
home to many of the estimated 55,000 Holocaust survivors living in New
York City. The German government has a series of funds through which it
pays reparations to victims of Nazi persecution. While people in the
building she lives in have applied for the money, Bochkaryova never has.
"I wasn't part of [the] Holocaust," she says. "My family was killed. It
was terrible. But I didn't go to a [concentration] camp. That money
isn't for me."
Not everyone, it seems, is as honest as Bochkaryova. On Nov. 9, the
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara,
announced charges against 17 people believed to have knowingly defrauded
the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany — the New York
City–based organization responsible for processing and approving
Germany's restitution payments to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution —
out of more than $42 million. Five former Claims Conference employees —
case agents and at least one supervisor — along with recruiters and an
expert document forger, allegedly submitted or otherwise tampered with
more than 5,600 applications over 16 years.
The extent of the fraud is so large that at a Nov. 9 press conference
even Bharara admitted surprise, saying that he would have expected the
nonprofit Holocaust survivors' organization to be "immune from base
greed and criminal fraud." "They knew to change all of the things we
routinely check," says Claims Conference executive vice president Greg
Schneider. "The forged documents look exactly like real ones. You cannot
tell the difference."
It's not easy to steal from a Holocaust fund. The Claims Conference
runs several different restitution programs, each with specific
eligibility requirements predetermined by the German government. Victims
must be born before certain dates, have lived within certain places and
sometimes possess no more than a certain income level — all of which
must be proven with copies of official documents. "You'd really have to
know your Holocaust history to get away with this," says one employee
who asked not to be named because she is involved in the investigation.
The Claims Conference was first made aware of a possible fraud in
December 2009, when an employee noticed that an applicant's date of
birth had been altered to indicate he was born before World War II when,
in fact, he was not. A few weeks later, a similarly altered application
was found. "We never got false claims," Schneider explains, "so a
coincidence that specific just wasn't possible." The Claims Conference
hired a private investigator, who identified fraudulent patterns in
several applications. For example, the same photo appeared on different
passports. Sometimes different people used the same wording in their
persecution stories. The Claims Conference promptly contacted the FBI,
which compared submitted data with the Social Security database, and
came up with 5,600 erroneous cases.
TIME examined some of the forged documents. In one, a 69-year-old
woman's birthplace and location of hiding was altered from a Ukrainian
city not occupied long enough by the Nazis, apparently to make her
eligible for compensation. The woman was apparently listed as having no
living relatives — thus making it difficult to independently verify her
story — while, in fact, she is reported to have at least one sister.
Court documents show that in another case, one of the applicants had an
incorrect birth date, birthplace and parents' names — and that the
applicant wasn't even Jewish.
When claimants received their reparations checks, they then allegedly
split the money — sometimes thousands of dollars — with the defendants
who are charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Two defendants,
Abram and Tatyana Grinman, live in Bochkaryova's apartment building.
They are accused of recruiting their elderly Russian-Jewish neighbors,
promising to help them obtain restitution money in return for a share of
the money. TIME reached Tatyana Grinman by phone, but she refused to
comment on the case. (The Grinmans may face 20 years in jail if found
guilty on the mail-fraud-conspiracy charge.) The investigation is
ongoing, and so far it's unclear how many of those recruited to submit
their names on applications knew what was happening; some seem to have
been told that kickbacks were simply part of the Holocaust-fund process.
The Claims Conference notified the German government of the scam in
January and payments on the fraudulent cases were immediately suspended.
A spokesman from the German Finance Ministry tells TIME that the German
government is considering whether to lodge compensation claims. Since
news of the indictment broke, more than 30 people have shown up at the
Claims Conference's Manhattan office, offering to return the money.
"This is a severe blow to the reputation of the Jewish Claims
Conference," says Stephan Kramer, the general secretary of the Central
Council of Jews in Germany. Although the Conference has been fully
cooperating with authorities, Kramer worries that legitimate "Holocaust
survivors were deprived of money, [and that] other eligible cases were
not processed" because of the disruption caused by the scheme.
And indeed, that may be the case. With just 116 employees in their
New York City office, the Claims Conference receives more than 1,000 new
applications a month. They are in the process of adopting stricter
paperwork requirements and a more thorough review process, which may
cause the 60-day average waiting period to stretch on for several
months.
But sitting outside their apartment in Brighton Beach, Bochkaryova
and her friend, Klara Fareer, 90, say they will never seek money from
Germany, whether they're eligible or not. "My family, my uncles went
away because of Hitler," says Fareer. "I did not go to a camp. I did not
hide. I could say to Germany, 'Oh, you did a bad thing.' But I am still
alive, and that is everything I need." — With reporting by Tristana Moore / Berlin
The Boys of Buchenwald is a 2002 documentary film produced by Paperny Films that examines how the child survivors of the Buchenwaldconcentration camp had to assimilate themselves back into normal society after having experienced the brutality of the Holocaust. The documentary features interviews with the survivors, including Elie Wiesel.
Over four hundred orphans from Buchenwald were sent to an orphanage in France where they were educated and cared for.[1]
The documentary follows the orphans, who are now old men, as they
reunite on the 55th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald by the
American army.
The now-elderly men all agree that their friendships in the
orphanage made the tremendous losses they suffered more manageable. "I
had just lost my father, and I had witnessed my brother’s murder right
next to me", one survivor says, addressing his best friend. "And then I
met you. You were a godsend."[citation needed]
The inhuman treatment they had received in the concentration
camps meant the boys needed to relearn how to live in society. The boys
of Buchenwald spent their childhoods surrounded by terror and death,
and, as a result, they were rebellious against authority, full of anger
and under-educated. In fact, society viewed child survivors as damaged
goods who would go on to become psychopaths.
The boys had to relearn everything — even their meals proved
challenging. Their extreme hunger and inexperience with ordinary
behavior had robbed them of table manners. They threw food, shoved it in
their pockets to save for later, and gorged themselves, clearing their
plates in a matter of minutes. With the help of benevolent guardians,
who gave consistent discipline, the boys slowly relearned how to behave.
Once it was time to leave the orphanage and go out on their own, many of the boys moved to Australia or Canada
to distance themselves from their awful pasts. There, they established
homes and careers near one another so they could still come together
for meals and Jewish holidays.
Awards
Gold Remi Award at the WorldFest International Film Festival in April 2004
Bronze World Medal at The New York Festival in January 2004
"The after effects are still evident today in children and adults whose ancestors faced this horrible scene" something Patricia Dillon Laub Esq either takes advantage of or does not care about.
German society largely responded to the enormity of the evidence for
and the horror of the Holocaust with an attitude of self-justification
and a practice of keeping quiet. Germans attempted to rewrite their own
history to make it more palatable in the post-war era.[1] For decades, West Germany and then unified Germany refused to allow access to its Holocaust-related archives in Bad Arolsen, citing privacy concerns. In May 2006, a 20-year effort by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum led to the announcement that 30–50 million pages would be made available to survivors, historians and others.[2]
The Holocaust and its aftermath left millions of refugees, including
many Jews who had lost most or all of their family members and
possessions, and often faced persistent antisemitism in their home
countries. The original plan of the Allies was to repatriate these
"displaced persons" to their countries of origin, but many refused to
return, or were unable to as their homes or communities had been
destroyed. As a result, more than 250,000 languished in displaced persons camps for years after the war ended.
With most displaced persons being unable or unwilling to return
to their former homes in Europe, and with restrictions to immigration to
many western countries remaining in place, the British Mandate of Palestine
became the primary destination for many Jewish refugees. However, as
local Arabs opposed their immigration, the United Kingdom refused to
allow Jewish refugees into the Mandate territory. Countries in the
Soviet Bloc made emigration difficult. Former Jewish partisans in
Europe, along with the Haganah in British Mandate of Palestine, organized a massive effort to smuggle Jews into Palestine, called Berihah,
which eventually transported 250,000 Jews (both displaced persons and
those who had been in hiding during the war) to Mandate Palestine. After
the State of Israeldeclared independence
in 1948, Jews were able to emigrate to Israel legally and without
restriction. By 1952, when the displaced persons camps were closed,
there were more than 80,000 Jewish former displaced persons in the
United States, about 136,000 in Israel, and another 10,000 in other
countries, including Mexico, Japan, and countries in Africa and South
America.
The few Jews in Poland were augmented by returnees from the Soviet
Union and survivors from camps in Germany. However, a resurgence of
antisemitism in Poland, in such incidents as the Kraków pogrom on August 11, 1945, and the Kielce pogrom on July 4, 1946, led to the exodus of a large part of the Jewish population, which no longer felt safe in Poland.[3] Anti-Jewish riots also broke out in several other Polish cities where many Jews were killed.[4]
An important reason for the atrocities was a widespread Polish
belief that the Jews were supporters of the new communist regime and the
new oppressors of the Polish state. This belief, termed "Żydokomuna", was fuelled by the fact that two of the three Communist leaders who dominated Poland between 1948 and 1956, Jakub Berman and Hilary Minc,
were of Jewish origin. The attitude of Christian Poles towards Polish
Jews hardened significantly and hundreds of Jews were killed in
anti-Jewish violence. Some were simply killed for financial reasons.[5]
As a result of the exodus the number of Jews in Poland decreased from
200,000 in the years immediately after the war to 50,000 in 1950 and
6,000 by the 1980s.[6]
Lesser post-war pogroms also broke out in Hungary.[5]
Welfare in Israel
As
of May 6, 2016 45,000 Holocaust survivors are living below the
country’s poverty line and need more assistance. Situations like these
result in heated and dramatic protests on the part of some survivors
against the Israeli government and related agencies. The average rate of cancer among survivors is nearly two and a half times the national average, while the average rate of colon cancer,
attributed to the victims' experience of starvation and extreme stress,
is nine times higher. The population of survivors that now live in
Israel has now dwindled to 189,000.[7][8][9]
Searching for records of victims
There has been a recent resurgence of interest among descendants of survivors in researching the fates of their relatives. Yad Vashem provides a searchable database of three million names, about half of the known Jewish victims. Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims Names is searchable over the internet yadvashem.org or in person at the Yad Vashem complex in Israel. Other databases and lists of victims' names, some searchable over the internet, are listed in Holocaust (resources).
Impact on culture
Effect on Yiddish language and culture
In
the decades preceding World War II, there was a tremendous growth in
the recognition of Yiddish as an official Jewish European language, even
a Yiddish renaissance, in particular in Poland. On the eve of World War II, there were 11 to 13 million speakers of Yiddish in the world.[10]
The Holocaust destroyed the Eastern European bedrock of Yiddish, though
the language was rapidly declining anyhow. In the 1920s and 1930s the
Soviet Jewish public rejected the cultural autonomy offered to it by the
regime and opted for Russification:[11]
while 70.4% of Soviet Jews declared Yiddish their mother tongue in
1926, only 39.7% did so in 1939. Even in Poland, where harsh
discrimination left the Jews as a cohesive ethnic group, Yiddish was
rapidly declining in favour of Polonization. 80% of the entire Jewish
population declared it mother tongue in 1931, but among high school
students this number fell to 53% in 1937.[12]
In the United States, the preservation of the language was always a
unigenerational phenomenon, and the immigrants' children quickly
abandoned it for English.[13]
Starting with the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, and continuing
with the destruction of Yiddish culture in Europe during the remainder
of the war, Yiddish language and culture were almost completely rooted
out of Europe. The Holocaust led to a dramatic decline in the use of
Yiddish, as the extensive Jewish communities, both secular and
religious, that used Yiddish in their day-to-day lives were largely
destroyed. Around five million victims of the Holocaust, or 85% of the
total, were speakers of Yiddish.[14]
Holocaust theology is a body of theological and philosophical debate concerning the role of God in the universe in light of the Holocaust of the late 1930s and 1940s. It is primarily found in Judaism; Jews were drastically affected by the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered in a genocide by Nazi Germany and its allies.[15][16]
Jews were killed in higher proportions than other groups; some scholars
limit the definition of the Holocaust to the Jewish victims of the
Nazis as Jews alone were targeted for the Final Solution. Others include the additional five million non-Jewish victims, bringing the total to about 11 million.[17]
One third of the total worldwide Jewish population were killed during
the Holocaust. The Eastern European Jewish population was particularly
hard hit, being reduced by ninety percent.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have traditionally taught that God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnibenevolent (all-good) in nature. However, these views are in apparent contrast with the injustice and suffering in the world. Monotheists
seek to reconcile this view of God with the existence of evil and
suffering. In so doing, they are confronting what is known as the problem of evil.
Within all of the monotheistic faiths many answers (theodicies)
have been proposed. In light of the magnitude of depravity seen in the
Holocaust, many people have also re-examined classical views on this
subject. A common question raised in Holocaust theology is "How can
people still have any kind of faith after the Holocaust?"
Orthodox Jews have stated that the fact that the Holocaust
happened does not diminish the belief in God. For a creation will never
be able to fully grasp the creator, just as a child in a operating
theater can not fathom why men are cutting up a live man's body. As the
grand Lubavitcher Rebbe once told Elie Weisel
that after witnessing the holocaust and realising how low man can
steep, who can we trust, if not God? Nevertheless, Orthodox Judaism does
encourage us to pray and cry out to God, and complain to him how he
lets bad things happen.[18]
Theodor Adorno commented that "writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,"[19]
and the Holocaust has indeed had a profound impact on art and
literature, for both Jews and non-Jews. Some of the more famous works
are by Holocaust survivors or victims, such as Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl and Anne Frank, but there is a substantial body of literature and art in many languages. Indeed, Paul Celan wrote his poem Todesfuge[20] as a direct response to Adorno's dictum.
The Holocaust has also been the subject of many films, including Oscar winners Schindler's List, The Pianist and Life Is Beautiful.
With the aging population of Holocaust survivors, there has been
increasing attention in recent years to preserving the memory of the
Holocaust. The result has included extensive efforts to document their
stories, including the Survivors of the Shoah project and Four Seasons
Documentary,[21] as well as institutions devoted to memorializing and studying the Holocaust, including Yad Vashem in Israel and the US Holocaust Museum.
The historic tale of the Danish Jews fleeing to Sweden by fishing boat
is recounted in an award-winning American children's novel.[22]
Huge amounts of works of art were looted by the Nazis from Jewish art collectors and dealers, either through outright theft or fire sales under extreme duress. Thus, any work of art that existed prior to 1945 has a potential provenance
problem. This is a serious obstacle for anyone who currently collects
pre-1945 European art. To avoid wasting thousands or even millions of
dollars, they must verify (normally with the assistance of an art
historian and a lawyer specializing in art law) that potential
acquisitions were not stolen by the Nazis from a Holocaust victim. The highest-profile legal case arising from this problem is the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Republic of Austria v. Altmann (2006), in which the Court held that U.S. courts could retroactively apply the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 to Austria for torts that allegedly occurred before 1976.
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the Jewish Agency led by Chaim Weizmann
submitted to the Allies a memorandum demanding reparations to Jews by
Germany but it received no answer. In March 1951, a new request was made
by Israel's foreign minister Moshe Sharett which claimed global recompense to Israel of $1.5 billion based on the financial cost absorbed by Israel for the rehabilitation of 500,000 Jewish survivors. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer accepted these terms and declared he was ready to negotiate other reparations. A Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany was opened in New York City by Nahum Goldmann
in order to help with individual claims. After negotiations, the claim
was reduced to a sum of $845 millions direct and indirect compensations
to be installed in a period of 14 years. In 1988, West Germany allocated
another $125 million for reparations.[23]
In 1999, many German industries such as Deutsche Bank, Siemens or BMW faced lawsuits for their role in the forced labour during World War II.
In order to dismiss these lawsuits, Germany agreed to raise $5 billions
of which Jewish forced laborers still alive could apply to receive a
lump sum payment of between $2,500 and $7,500.[23] In 2012, Germany agreed to pay a new reparation of €772 millions as a result of negotiations with Israel.[24]
In 2014, the SNCF,
the French state-owned railway company, was compelled to allocate
$60 millions to American Jewish Holocaust survivors for its role in the
transport of deportees to Germany. It corresponds to approximately
$100,000 per survivor.[25]
Although the SNCF was forced by German authorities to cooperate in
providing transport for French Jews to the border and did not make any
profit from this transport, according to Serge Klarsfeld, president of the organization Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France.[26]
These reparations were sometimes criticized in Israel where they were seen as "blood money".[23] The American professor Norman Finkelstein wrote The Holocaust Industry to denounce how the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel.[27]
These reparations also led to a massive scam where $57 millions were
fraudulently given to thousands of people who were not eligible for the
funds.[28]
While the restitution movements of the mid-1990s reunited some
families with their stolen property, Holocaust remembrance also served
as an important part of the reparation and restitution movement. The
main idea of Holocaust remembrance comes from Dan Diner's article
"Restitution and Memory: The Holocaust in European Political Cultures"
which is the idea that Europe is now bound together by a collective
memory of the Holocaust. This unified memory is one of the main reasons
Diner lists for the flourishing of the restitution movement of the
mid-1990s, following that of the initial movement immediately after
World War II. This unified memory allowed for all European countries to
come together after such a tragic event to establish the Holocaust at
its center as one the most damaging occurrences of the 20th century
leading to a greater consciousness and awareness of this horrific event,
in addition, to beginning countless discourses on the topic.
Immediately after the Holocaust, countries such as the United States
were preoccupied with the Cold War, whereas countries like Germany were
controlled by foreign powers, and the Holocaust was not the main
concern. Only as time went on did Europe begin to understand the
importance of restitution and reparations. As the restoration of
property increased, an increase in the memories for Holocaust survivors
was found to be a direct correlation. The connection between property
and memory proved to be a key in unlocking more details about the
Holocaust, further adding to this collective European memory, and
thereby increasing and furthering the restitution movement.[29]
The United Nations
General Assembly voted on November 1, 2005, to designate January 27 as
the "International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust." January 27, 1945, is the day that the former Nazi
concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was
liberated. The day had already been observed as Holocaust Memorial Day a
number of countries. Israel and the Jewish diaspora observe Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagvora, the "Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and the courage of the Jewish people," on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, which generally falls in April.[30]
Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II–usually referred to as the Holocaust[31]–did not occur in the manner and to the extent described by current scholars.
Key elements of this claim are the rejection of the following: that the Nazi government had a policy of deliberately targeting Jews and people of Jewish ancestry for extermination as a people; that between five and seven million Jews[31] were systematically killed by the Nazis and their allies; and that genocide was carried out at extermination camps using tools of mass murder, such as gas chambers.[32][33]
Many Holocaust deniers do not accept the term "denial" as an appropriate description of their point of view, and use the term Holocaust revisionism instead.[34] Scholars, however, prefer the term "denial" to differentiate Holocaust deniers from historical revisionists, who use established historical methods.[35]
Most Holocaust denial claims imply, or openly state, that the Holocaust is a hoax arising out of a deliberate Jewish conspiracy to advance the interest of Jews at the expense of other peoples.[36] For this reason, Holocaust denial is generally considered to be an antisemitic[37]conspiracy theory.[38]
The methods of Holocaust deniers are often criticized as based on a
predetermined conclusion that ignores extensive historical evidence to
the contrary.[39]
See also
Documentaries that have to do with life after the Holocaust:
Haaretz, Ringleader of $57 million Holocaust survivor fraud found guilty[7]
Diner, Dan (2003). "Restitution and Memory: The Holocaust in European Political Cultures". New German Critique (90): 36–44. doi:10.2307/3211106. JSTOR3211106.
Harran, Marilyn. The Holocaust Chronicles, A History in Words and Pictures, Louis Weber, 2000, p. 697.
Donald L Niewyk, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust,
Columbia University Press, 2000, p.45: "The Holocaust is commonly
defined as the murder of more than 5,000,000 Jews by the Germans in
World War II." Estimates by scholars range from 5.1 million to 7
million. See the appropriate section of the Holocaust article.
Key elements of Holocaust denial:
"Before discussing how Holocaust denial constitutes a conspiracy
theory, and how the theory is distinctly American, it is important to
understand what is meant by the term "Holocaust denial." Holocaust
deniers, or "revisionists," as they call themselves, question all three
major points of definition of the Nazi Holocaust. First, they contend
that, while mass murders of Jews did occur (although they dispute both
the intentionality of such murders as well as the supposed deservedness
of these killings), there was no official Nazi policy to murder Jews.
Second, and perhaps most prominently, they contend that there were no
homicidal gas chambers, particularly at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where
mainstream historians believe over 1 million Jews were murdered,
primarily in gas chambers. And third, Holocaust deniers contend that the
death toll of European Jews during World War II was well below 6
million. Deniers float numbers anywhere between 300,000 and 1.5 million,
as a general rule." Mathis, Andrew E. Holocaust Denial, a DefinitionArchived 2011-06-09 at the Wayback Machine., The Holocaust History Project, July 2, 2004. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
"In part III we directly address the three major foundations upon
which Holocaust denial rests, including... the claim that gas chambers
and crematoria were used not for mass extermination but rather for
delousing clothing and disposing of people who died of disease and
overwork; ... the claim that the six million figure is an exaggeration
by an order of magnitude—that about six hundred thousand, not six
million, died at the hands of the Nazis; ... the claim that there was no
intention on the part of the Nazis to exterminate European Jewry and
that the Holocaust was nothing more than the unfortunate by-product of
the vicissitudes of war." Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman. Denying History: : who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and why Do They Say It?, University of California Press, 2000, ISBN0-520-23469-3, p. 3.
"Holocaust Denial: Lies that the mass extermination of the Jews by
the Nazis never happened; that the number of Jewish losses has been
'greatly exaggerated'; that the Holocaust was not systematic nor a
result of an official policy; or simply that the Holocaust never took
place." What is Holocaust Denial, Yad Vashem website, 2004. Retrieved December 18, 2006.
"Among the untruths routinely promoted are the claims that no gas
chambers existed at Auschwitz, that only 600,000 Jews were killed rather
than twelve million, and that Hitler had no murderous intentions toward
Jews or other groups persecuted by his government." Holocaust DenialArchived 2007-04-04 at the Wayback Machine., Anti-Defamation League, 2001. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
"The kinds of assertions made in Holocaust-denial material include the following:
Several hundred thousand rather than approximately twelve million Jews died during the war.
Scientific evidence proves that gas chambers could not have been used to kill large numbers of people.
The Nazi command had a policy of deporting Jews, not exterminating them.
Some deliberate killings of Jews did occur, but were carried out by the peoples of Eastern Europe rather than the Nazis.
Jews died in camps of various kinds, but did so as the result of
hunger and disease. The Holocaust is a myth created by the Allies for
propaganda purposes, and subsequently nurtured by the Jews for their own
ends.
Errors and inconsistencies in survivors’ testimonies point to their essential unreliability.
Alleged documentary evidence of the Holocaust, from photographs of
concentration camp victims to Anne Frank’s diary, is fabricated.
"The deniers' selection of the name revisionist to describe
themselves is indicative of their basic strategy of deceit and
distortion and of their attempt to portray themselves as legitimate
historians engaged in the traditional practice of illuminating the
past." Deborah Lipstadt. Denying the Holocaust—The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Penguin, 1993, ISBN0-452-27274-2, p. 25.
"Dressing themselves in pseudo-academic garb, they have adopted the
term "revisionism" in order to mask and legitimate their enterprise." Introduction: Denial as Anti-SemitismArchived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine., "Holocaust Denial: An Online Guide to Exposing and Combating Anti-Semitic Propaganda", Anti-Defamation League, 2001. Retrieved June 12, 2007.
