The Holocaust Industry (23 page)
17
See, for example, Carl N. Degler,
In Search of Human Nature
(Oxford: 1991), 202ff.
18
John Stuart Mill,
On the Subjection of Women
(Cambridge: 1991), 148.
19
It is no less repugnant to compare the Nazi holocaust, as Michael Berenbaum proposes, only in
order to "demonstrate the claim of uniqueness"
(After Tragedy,
29).
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20
Zuckerman,
A Surplus of Memory,
210.
21
I refer here both to the
Historikerstreit
and to the published correspondence between Saul
Friedländer and Martin Broszat. In both instances, the debate largely turned on the absolute versus
relative nature of Nazi crimes; for example, the validity of comparisons with the Gulag. See Peter
Baldwin (ed.),
Reworking the Past,
Richard J Evans, In
Hitler's Shadow
(New York 1989), James
Knowlton and Truett Cates,
Forever
in
the Shadow of Hitler?
(Atlantic Highlands, NJ: 1993), and
Aharon Weiss (ed.), Yad Vashem Studies
XIX
Jerusalem: 1988)
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Letters to Finkelstein
[Note: at the request of the authors some of the names have been changed or edited]
[Updated: 9 November 2000. New letters are at the bottom]
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:02:12 +0200
I "spent" 4 years in various Concentration Camps.
Everything you wrote about "The Holocaust Industry" is nothing but true.
Sincerely,
R. G
Tel Aviv
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Dear Mr. Finkelstein,
Recently, I have read your book "Holocaust Industry" with great interest. I would like to thank you for the courage
and truthfulness in your writing.
As a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German-Nazi occupation in Poland, I have a special reason to be interested in
literature on the subject. I owe it to the memory of my late mother who risked her life and mine when hiding,
adopting and saving a Jewish girl in Czestochowa. We were fortunate and lucky to succeed in helping the Jewish
family to reunite in 1945 when her parents survived the labor camp in Czestochowa (probably the same which
your mother experienced).
I am totally disgusted by the immorality in the cases of "the Holocaust industry." I consider your book to be
fundamental for turning over the flood of shameful, greed motivated actions. The book should be recommended
as an educational reading in schools and universities.
Please accept my best wishes,
Sincerely
Karol Pelc
P. S. I can also suggest to your readers two journal publications related to the same subject:
(1) The New York Times' article "Lawyer in Holocaust Case Faces Litany of Complaints", NYT September 8,
2000. It is available on the Web at the following address:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/08/national/08FAGA.html
(2) The Atlantic Monthly's short story "The Third Generation" by Tova
Reich, The Atlantic Monthly, March 2000. It is available on the Web at the
following address:
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/03/reich.htm
.
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16th September 2000
Bernard Szmekura
Australia
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THE GREAT POST HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY FRAUD
Dear Prof. Norman Finkelstein
I am the son of Jewish Holocaust Victim survivors. I have fought very hard to claim reparations for my Parents
over the years and have had very little success. My parent's history is well documented in The Lowicz Memorial
Yiskor Book and is well known amongst a few surviving Holocaust Survivors living in Melbourne Australia. I can
prove that the Holocaust Claims Mechanism is a massive Fraud especially in Australia.
It is my understanding that six million of the seven million European Jews were murdered by the Nazi's and that
some where in the order of 275,000 Jews actually survived as Victim/Survivors. Of this 275,000 approximately
175,000 were liberated from the camps. As of this year it is estimated that around 80% of the victim /survivors
have passed away. This would leave about 55,000 victim survivors and approximately and approximately 35,000
left of those liberated from camps. Furthermore in Australia there were about 10,000 Holocaust Victim/survivors
settling here by 1950 and 80% have passed away leaving approximately 2,000. A Prof. Colin Rubinstein quotes
larger figures but they are unsubstantiated and other than there are no official figures other that shipping lists
during the Post Holocaust period which are now being assessed.
It is not difficult to estimate that such large numbers of actual Holocaust Victim/Survivors have now passed
away some 55 years after being liberated as they suffered enormous Physical damage under the Nazi regime and
there lifespan would have been significantly reduced.
In 1999 $AU4,000,000 (four million Australian Dollars ) was distributed to Holocaust Victims in critical financial
Hardship and they received $AU1000 each this means that 4000 individuals claim to be not only Holocaust
Survivors but in Financial Hardship. Considering there were 4 Million claims made Worldwide under the German
Restitution Legislation (B.E.G.) by 1953 this means that most Victim / Survivors claimed the Lump Sum and Life
Pension. Assuming that 80% were successful this means that the actual estimated Holocaust Victims in Australia
received this compensation. It is clear that many So Called Russian "Jews" who claim they survived the
Holocaust, have made fraudulent claims. The whole process has not been available for Public audit.
This means one can safely assume that there would have been only 400 Holocaust Victim Survivors without
B.E.G. German pensions in Australia. Since the German Slave Labour Settlement was announced no less than
30,000 claims have been made in Australia. This is a total impossibility as of the 2000 Holocaust Victim /Survivors
only a few Hundred actually liberated from Concentration Camps/ Ghettos and situations where they could have
been in Slave Labour. I have been told that the Washington Holocaust Museum has been awaiting Official
of true numbers of Holocaust Numbers in Australia for years.
The Solicitor handling such Slave Labour Claims is Mr Henry Byrstiner in Australia and he is working with Ed
Fagan in the USA. He a $50 fee for each application for each claim then a further few hundred dollars if the
are successful. I understand that Mr Ed Fagan is Claiming $US4,000,000 (four million USA dollars for his work)
and I would safely assume that Mr Byrstiner is getting his share. I have spoken to Mr Burtsyner and had much
feedback of others that dealt with him and. Both the feed back and my own experience are that he is not very
sympathetic unless you have money.
It is time that databases be set up of all B.E.G. claimants, Article 2 Claims Conference Claimants and all other
claimants and compared with databases of actual Holocaust Victim/Survivors. I believe that some International
Jewish Authorities prevented the Public Databasing of Lists of Holocaust Survivors by The Church of Latter Day
Saints for Religious reasons. I note that there is no other public Access Database system that took its place.
Searching for lost victims of the Holocaust through the Red Cross is very difficult.
Many Jews that claim to be survivors were the Wealthy Jews of Europe that were financially mobile enough to
flee the Nazi's and whilst I respect the definition of Holocaust Survivor and comprehend their financial loss in
escaping the Nazi's. The real Victims are those who actually caught under Nazi Occupation and were brutalised
and incarcerated. Those who suffered direct Nazi brutalization had their lifespans significantly reduced in the
main. It is of some bitter relief that a few other fellow Jews understand this great Fraud that has taken place
against the real and actual victim Survivors of the Holocaust.
I quite often meet Jews in Australia who claim that their parents went through the Holocaust and all of them are
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extremely wealthy. It is quite remarkable that whilst both my parents suffered incarceration in the Death camps
and Ghettos and lost all their direct and indirect family in the Holocaust (some 120 in all) that they were never
ever invited to commemoration of the Holocaust. In fact the Melbourne Holocaust Memorial Centre was set up in
1987 a year after my Father's passing. It is very clear to me that nearly all Australian Jews are too ready to Claim
some sort of Kudos as being connected to the Holocaust as most Sympathetic Non-Jews in Australia have no
idea who is who. Even the Accounts and records of the Gestapo Crimes salvaged by my father's friend, Mr
Gedaliah Shaiak, have mysterially disappeared. You can find a reference to Mr Shaiak in the 1965 "Who's who in
World Jewry" but there is no mention of him in the Australian Holocaust Exhibitions.
I am now quite certain that thousands of Nazi's sought refuge in Australia in the Post War period and some of
them came here with the Identities of their Jewish Victims. The published account of Australia being a "Safe
Haven" for Nazis and the Gestapo claims that The Australian Jewish Community backed down from taking action
against the Australian Government because of threat that Foreign Aid to Israel would be cut, this is not true. The
Australian Jewish Community is a total Farce. The overwhelming majority 35,000 Jews in Australia in 1945 where
hostile toward the influx of Eastern European Holocaust Jewry, unless they had large huge amounts of wealth on
entry. One must be suspect about that particular group of Holocaust survivors that entered Australia with their
wealth largely intact.
I feel rather isolated now from the Jewish Community as I have met most of them and they do not possess the
Human Qualities one would expect from descendants and/or a community that has suffered such a great Human
Tragedy such as the Holocaust.
The truth marches on and we must expose the great post Holocaust Tragedy.
Yours Sincerely
Bernard Szmekura
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From: patron
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:00:18 -0500
You and your family are a truly loathsome set of human beings. The only
resurgance of anti -Semitism comes as a result of books like yours, not
from attempta to combat your Nazi apologetics. Spare us the crap about
your family "survivors"; IF that is really true, perhaps that is one set
that we could have done without as at least you would not have been
born. The next time any Jew in the world is physically attacked or
killed for being Jewish-whether in Iran, Crown Heights or West Ridge,
Chicago- we will hold YOU responsible for inspiring the deed. You had
better watch your back, we know where you work, we know where you live
and would be overjoyed to send you to a well-earned and bloody demise.
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From: David Pavett