ZDN Exclusive -- Rescuing Israel: Time To Play The Holocaust Card... Again

by ZDN — January 4th, 2009

04-JAN-2009 [last updated 05-JAN-2009]

“Care must be taken not to give a platform for deniers… or seek to disprove the deniers’ position through normal historical debate and rational argument” ['Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust at the Stockholm International Forum, 2000]

On 19 Dec., the Miami Herald ran a story titled “Holocaust survivor escaped with gems“. Irene Weisberg Zisblatt, born Chana Seigelstein, decided to come forth with her story about her survival of the holocaust and escape from the notorious Auschwitz “death camp” after a 50 year period of silence . Following is a brief analysis of her claims.

Note that there may be some accuracies in the following figures since i have not followed every resource and figure to their ultimate conclusion for the purpose of this brief analysis. However i believe the resources and figures given, except where otherwise noted, to be generally accurate. Furthermore, the resources used here represent only a very small fraction of my study material, most of which is available here (resources without a referring link may not have been uploaded yet but are likely available using a search engine).

The timing is impeccable; just when Israel is ramping up its PR campaign in an attempt to cover its ass while it executes a holocaust of its own against Arab civilians (something it has been doing for ~60 years), along comes Irene Zisblatt, another “holocaust survivor” with a truly sensational story. Although devoid of original content for the most part (several particulars of her story seem to surface over and over among “holocaust survivors”), her claims are sure to dazzle and gain sympathy from preconditioned supporters of the official holocaust story and thus, in turn, Israel, the Zionist occupiers of Palestine. Timing is everything, as they say.

Her romantic story centers around 4 diamonds given to her by her mother “to be used to buy bread should she ever find herself hungry during World War II”. Heartbreaking indeed, but is it true? Let’s look at this statement first:

“Zisblatt’s entire family was killed in the gas chambers, and those four diamonds were the last mementoes of them.”

Were there homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz? To be sure, there were gas chambers and they were used to disinfect everyday items such as clothing and bedding. No one denies that non-homicidal gas chambers were used for such purposes, but homicidal gas chambers is another matter. As science and evidence has shown, many claims of homicidal gas chambers have not been able to stand up to scrutiny. Even the Auschwitz museum changed its death tally from ~4 million to ~1.1 million and this figure includes deaths of all races and, apparently, all causes, including Typhus which reached epidemic proportions at times. Here is the relevant quote from the museum website :

The overall number of victims of Auschwitz in the years 1940-1945 is estimated at between 1,100,000 and 1,500,000 people. The majority of them, and above all the mass transports of Jews who arrived beginning in 1942, died in the gas chambers.

By the same token, the original figures given for the total number of people killed by the Germans is around 9-11 million, approximately 6 million of those being Jewish (in the past estimates have put the total number for all races as high as 26 million). This figure also has been heavily revised over the years as the truth is separated from Zionist interests. Lets take a look at one source, Wikipedia, as an example of how the official math doesn’t calculate…

According to the Wikipedia entry for “Criticism of Holocaust denial“, in the section “Jewish population“, the World Almanac puts the world Jewish population at 15,319,359 in 1940 and 11,266,600 in 1949, a difference of 4,052,759. This figure obviously doesn’t support 6 million Jewish deaths. But wait – in 1949 the World Almanac revises its 1940 figure (?) now claiming the world Jewish population prior to the war is 16,643,120, a difference of 1,323,761, which brings the total difference of the world Jewish population from 1940 to 1949 to 5,376,520 (5.4 million less Jews in 1949 than in 1940). Although the new figure grants a bit more latitude for holocaust supporters, it is not quite generous enough as it still does not support 6 million Jewish deaths, yet the very same Wikipedia estimates that 5.9 million Jews were killed in the holocaust. Furthermore, in the same page, Typhus is hardly mentioned and in the Wikipedia page for Auschwitz, Typhus is not mentioned at all except for one instance where it states that Anne Frank died of Typhus and that wasn’t in Auschwitz (her case is another subject altogether).

Number of Alleged Dead in Auschwitz	Source
9,000,000	Cited by the French documentary, Night and Fog, which has been shown to millions of school students worldwide.
8,000,000	The French War Crime Research Office, Doc. 31, 1945.
7,000,000	Also cited by the French War Crime Research Office.
6,000,000	Cited in the book “Auschwitz Doctor” by Miklos Nyiszli. It has since been proven that this book is a fraud and the “doctor” was never even at Auschwitz, even though the book is often cited by historians.
5,000,000 to 5,500,000	Cited in 1945 at the trial of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess, based on his “confession” which was written in English, a language he never spoke.
5,000,000	Cited on April 20, 1978 by the French daily, Le Monde. Also cited on January 23, 1995 by the German daily Die Welt. By September 1, 1989, Le Monde reduced the figure to 1,433,000.
4,500,000	In 1945 this figure was cited by another witness at the aforementioned Hoess trial.
4,000,000	Cited by a Soviet document of May 6, 1945 and officially acknowledged by the Nuremberg War Crimes trial. This figure was also reported in The New York Times on April 18, 1945, although 50 years later on January 26, 1995 (see below), The New York Times and The Washington Post slashed the figure to 1,500,000 citing new findings by the Auschwitz Museum officials. In fact, the figure of 4,000,000 was later repudiated by the Auschwitz museum officials in 1990 (see below) but the figure of 1,500,000 victims was not formally announced by Polish President Lech Walesa until five years after the Auschwitz historians had first announced their discovery.
3,500,000	Cited in the 1991 edition of the Dictionary of the French Language and by Claude Lanzmann in 1980 in his introduction to Filip Muller’s book, “Three Years in an Auschwitz Gas Chamber.”
3,000,000	Cited in a forced confession by Rudolf Hoess, the Auschwitz commander who said this was the number of those who had died at Auschwitz prior to Dec. 1, 1943. Later cited in the June 7, 1993 issue of Heritage, the most widely read Jewish newspaper in California, even though three years previously the authorities at the Auschwitz museum had scaled down the figure to a minimum of 1,100,000 and a maximum of 1,500,000. (see below).
2,500,000	Cited by a famous “witness to the Holocaust,” Rudolf Vrba, when he testified on July 16, 1981 for the Israeli government’s war crimes trial of former SS official Adolf Eichmann.
2,000,000	Cited by no less than three famous Holocaust historians, including Leon Poliakov (1951) writing in “Harvest of Hate”; Georges Wellers, writing in 1973 in “The Yellow Star at the Time of Vichy”; and Lucy Dawidowicz, writing in 1975 in “The War Against the Jews.”
2,000,000 to 4,000,000	Cited by Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer in 1982 in his book, “A History of the Holocaust.” However, by 1989 Bauer revised his figures and determined that the actual number was lower: 1,600,000.
1,600,000	This is a 1989 revision by Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer of his earlier figure in 1982 of 2,000,000 to 4,000,000, Bauer cited this new figure on September 22, 1989 in The Jerusalem Post, at which time he wrote’ ‘The larger figures have been dismissed for years, except that it hasn’t reached the public yet.”
1,500,000	In 1995 this was the “official” number of Auschwitz deaths announced by Polish President Lech Walesa as determined by the historians at the Auschwitz museum. This number was inscribed on the monument at the Auschwitz camp at that time, thereby “replacing” the earlier 4,000,000 figure that had been formally repudiated (and withdrawn from the monument) five years earlier in 1990. At that time, on July 17, 1990 The Washington Times reprinted a brief article from The London Daily Telegraph citing the “new” figure of 1,500,000 that had been determined by the authorities at the Auschwitz museum. This new figure was reported two years later in a UPI report published in the New York Post on March 26, 1992. On January 26, 1995 both The Washington Post and The New York Times cited this 1,500,000 figure as the new “official” figure (citing the Auschwitz Museum authorities).
1,471,595	This is a 1983 figure cited by historian Georges Wellers who (as noted previously) had determined, writing in 1973, that some 2,000,000 had died. In his later calculation, Wellers decided that of the 1,471,595 who had died at Auschwitz, 1,352,980 were Jews.
1,433,000	This figure was cited on September 1, 1989 by the French daily, Le Monde, which earlier, on April 20, 1978, had cited the figure at 4,000,000.
1,250,000	In 1985, historian Raul Hilberg arrived at this figure in his book, “The Destruction of the European Jews.” According to Hilberg, of those dead, some 1,000,000 were Jews.
1,100,000 to 1,500,000	Sources for this estimate are historians Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum (later of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) in their 1984 book, “Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp”; also Dr. Franciszek Piper, the curator of the Auschwitz Museum, writing a chapter in that book. This estimate was later also cited by Walter Reich, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, writing in The Washington Post on September 8, 1998. The upper figure of 1,500,000 thus remains the “official” figure as now inscribed at Auschwitz, with the earlier figure of 4,000,000 having been removed from the memorial at the site of the former concentration camp.
1,000,000	Jean-Claude Pressac, writing in his 1989 book “Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers.” This is interesting since he wrote his book to repudiate so-called “Holocaust deniers” who were called that precisely because they had questioned the numbers of those who had died at Auschwitz.
900,000	Reported on August 3, 1990 11, by Aufbau, a Jewish newspaper in New York.
800,000 to 900,000	Reported by Gerald Reitlinger in his 1953 book, “The Final Solution.” This figure is notable, considering the fact that it reduces the Auschwitz death total from the 4,000,000 figure that was widely in vogue in 1953.
775,000 to 800,000	Jean-Claude Pressac’s revised figure, put forth in his 1993 book, “The Crematoria of Auschwitz: The Mass Murder’s Machinery”, scaling down the figure from Pressac’s 1989 claim of 1,000,000 dead. At this juncture, Pressac said that of the new number, 630,000 were Jews.
630,000 to 710,000	In 1994 Pressac scaled his figure down somewhat further; this is the figure cited in the German language translation of Pressac’s 1993 book originally published in French. Again, this is substantially less than Pressac’s 1989 figure of 1,000,000.
73,137	This figure was reported in The New York Times on March 3, 1991 and was based entirely on the wartime German concentration camp records that had been captured by the Soviets and just recently released. According to this figure, of those dead, 38,031 were Jews. These records state that the total of all persons who died in the ENTIRE German prison camp system from 1935 to 1945 were 403,713. To repeat: a total of 403,713 persons of all races and religions was officially recorded to have died (of all causes. typhus, old age, measles, etc.-and execution) in the entire prison camp system over a 10 year period. Of those 403,713 a total of 73,137 died at Auschwitz. Of those 73,137 who died at Auschwitz, 38,031 were Jews.

Other popular myths include claims that the Nazi’s had shrunk the heads of some of their victims to use as ornaments (i believe this evidence is now “missing”), using human skin to make lamp shades, surgically removing tattoos to make decorations, using human hair to stuff mattresses for affluent Germans, soap manufactured from human fat, etc.. Some of these claims have been thoroughly debunked and are not repeated any longer, not even by serious supporters of the official holocaust history, while others ride on very flimsy evidence, such as the testimony of a single person. Some are not new and were promoted by Zionists during the first World War. Many of the claims of camps operating homicidal gas chambers were debunked as well, thus the reason why recent claims are limited to fewer and fewer camps (at one point i believe it was claimed that all the concentration camps had killing apparatus, ranging from electrocution to carbon monoxide). Claims of homicidal gas chambers in the remaining camps also ride on extremely thin ice. Many scientists, scholars and historians that have studied the subject do not believe homicidal gas chambers existed and offer substantial evidence to support their claims, especially in Auschwitz. And contrary to what seems to be popular belief, they are not racist neo-Nazi’s. Here is fraction of the resources i’ve used in my study:

http://www.codoh.com/author/cole.html – David Cole, a Jewish revisionist whose travel to Auschwitz resulted in a documentary film (as well as harassment and death threats by the JDL (Jewish Defense League)).

http://www.revisionists.com/leuchter/reports/index.html – Fred Leuchter did consulting and design work for execution apparatus in the U.S., including gas chambers. He wrote a few papers on the holocaust including “A Technical Report on the Execution Gas Chamber“

http://www.germarrudolf.com/ – Germar Rudolf is currently in jail in Germany because freedom of speech is illegal there. He has written a number of papers on the holocaust including “Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of the ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auschwitz“.

Zisblatt then claims that she was a favorite of Dr. Mengele:

“Zisblatt told the audience how, as a young prisoner in the camps, she was a favorite of Dr. Josef Mengele, who performed experiments and surgeries on her and other prisoners without anesthesia.”

Were this a somewhat isolated claim, i may be inclined to give it some credence. There is no doubt that atrocities were committed on all sides and i have little reason to doubt some were in the form of medical experiments, but the problem here is that everyone seems to be a “favorite of Dr. Mengele“, a claim which pops up again and again among “holocaust survivors”. It is amusing how so many “survivors” of Auschwitz became favorites of Dr. Mengele in a camp with TENS OF THOUSANDS of prisoners. Two more examples with similar themes can be found here in the Phil Donahue section (one in the audience and one who called in), though these go back a few years to the time when “eye witnesses” were still claiming that soap was made from the fat of Jewish bodies:

http://www.holocaustdenialvideos.com/ – see the Phil Donahue section

Then we have this absurd claim:

“Mengele injected chemicals into her eyes in an attempt to change their color and forced her to remain in a cold room for days. He injected viruses under Zisblatt’s fingernail and surgically experimented on her to find a way to remove the numbers tattooed on her arm. Afterward, he ordered the nurse to administer a lethal injection to both girls, but the nurse worked for the underground and was able to free them, one of many miracles Zisblatt experienced.”

And a bit later:

“[...] although she had been given watery soup filled with chemicals to destroy her reproductive organs, she gave birth to a son and a daughter in the 1960s.”

Miracles is right. Lets recap:

manages to survive the “gas chamber” in the “factory of death” while the rest of her family isn’t so lucky.
manages to save 4 diamonds from being discovered using the “swallow and retrieve them over and over again” method for 15 months.
manages to escape Mengeles’ death sentence due to a sympathetic nurse who “worked for the underground”.
manages to escape from her captors.
manages to have 2 children even after having been given a “watery soup filled with chemicals to destroy her reproductive organs”.

What do you think the chances are that every one of these claims is true AND are attributed to a single individual? I could potentially accept any one of these claims, but i cannot accept ALL of them without stretching my imagination to its breaking point.

An often overlooked issue was the purpose of the Auschwitz camps. Auschwitz was a complex that consisted of multiple camps dedicated to producing desperately needed rubber and other materials and labor for the German war effort. The use of prisoner labor, though certainly unethical, was vital in this regard. Does this coincide with a “factory of death”? How do you keep up production if your goal is to kill all your workers as Zisblatt implies? It is also interesting that Auschwitz was shut down for about 3 months due to a Typhus outbreak (a disease carried by lice that was deadly at the time and a huge problem throughout all of the camps, thus the reason for using Zyklon B as a disinfectant at the camps). Why would the Germans bother using Zyklon in the camps to preserve health if death was their goal? It is admitted even by holocaust supporters that the vast majority of the Zyklon B gas was used for disinfections purposes, not homicidal, and since the Germans were, in fact, disinfecting people, clothing, bedding and buildings, does this not cast a bit of doubt on the sinister reasons given us for piles of clothing and hair and Zyklon B containers? We know that many prisoners were given hair cuts and uniforms in an effort to combat the Typhus problem and that the camps were filthy, especially in the last months of the war when the allies bombed rail roads which were used to move supplies, including medicine and food. Would this not result in piles of clothes and hair?

If you find all this difficult to swallow, consider that history is written by the winners, not the losers.

And who benefits from this massive hoax? Israel, for one. They prostitute the holocaust at every opertunity in order to continue to receive sympathy, which in turn leads to trillions of dollars in funding from other countries and weapons from the U.S.. Meanwhile, everyone seems to turn their back as Israel engages in their very own holocaust against the Palestinians which, in principle, is no different than what they claim the Nazi’s had done.

The U.S. is another beneficiary because it uses Israel as a proxy to further its own genocidal and geopolitical agenda in the middle east. I wonder though, how much of this is due to the impressive Zionist influence in Washington and the mainstream media? There is much more to this story but it is beyond the scope of this article.

International bankers, many Jewish, obviously benefit as well. War times are high times for bankers, especially when you can finance both sides.

In closing i offer this: you are NOT an anti-Semite for asking questions, despite what any government says or any Nazi-like Jewish organizations would like you to believe. I am not implying that being Jewish is tantamount to being evil, for this is not the case. Unlike the Arab hating Israeli Zionists, and ill informed Americans who don’t know any better, i am not racist. I believe that the criminal nature of Zionist Israel and her supporters is ultimately carried out by very few, very powerful people. I find it difficult to blame even typical Israeli (or other) Jews who support the position of Israel because i suspect that if they were told the truth their support would turn to outrage and lead to protest. I think this is the same for average citizens everywhere, but many of us are not told the truth. One only needs to understand media ownership and corporate interests to see why. Of course, ultimately, it is us who are responsible, for we have allowed things to unravel as far as they have. By the same token however, it is us who can fix the problem.

Hate is a powerful thing. It has been created and instilled and manipulated throughout history by powerful people for highly unethical purposes. I hate the fact that i have been lied to for so long by so many, but i am now very careful who i direct my anger toward and no longer subject an entire race to my wrath, as it were. It is not Jews or Blacks or Whites or Arabs or any race that is the problem, rather it is often a handful of powerful people who are able to manipulate the masses for their own benefit. I hope more of us keep this in mind as the water comes to a boil.

Some further resources for study: