On June 5, 2009, Elie Wiesel accompanied President Barack Obama on a trip to the Memorial Site on the grounds of the former Buchenwald concentration camp. Obama made a televised speech, standing in front of the Jedem Das Seine gate, which was in the open position. Standing (unseen) behind him was Bertrand Hertz, one of the Buchenwald orphans who survived.
Early in his speech, Obama said this:
We saw the area known as Little Camp where Elie and Bertrand were sent as boys. In fact, at the place that commemorates this camp, there is a photograph in which we can see a 16-year-old Elie in one of the bunks along with the others. We saw the ovens of the crematorium, the guard towers, the barbed wire fences, the foundations of barracks that once held people in the most unimaginable conditions.
Following Obama’s speech, Elie Wiesel stepped up to the podium, and said this:
Mr. President, Chancellor Merkel, Bertrand, ladies and gentlemen. As I came here today it was actually a way of coming and visiting my father’s grave — but he had no grave. His grave is somewhere in the sky. This has become in those years the largest cemetery of the Jewish people. The day he died was one of the darkest in my life. He became sick, weak, and I was there. I was there when he suffered. I was there when he asked for help, for water. I was there to receive his last words. But I was not there when he called for me, although we were in the same block; he on the upper bed and I on the lower bed. He called my name, and I was too afraid to move. All of us were. And then he died. I was there, but I was not there.
What are we to make of this? The reason that I dredged up this memory of Elie Wiesel’s words at Buchenwald is because the question of whether Elie was really an orphan at Buchenwald just won’t go away. Now a new post, which questions Elie Wiesel’s claim to be a Buchenwald orphan, has just gone up on the Elie Wiesel Cons the World blog, which you can read here.
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A Prominent False Witness:
Elie Wiesel passes for one of the most celebrated eyewitnesses to the alleged Holocaust. Yet in his supposedly autobiographical book Night, he makes no mention of gas chambers. He claims instead to have witnessed Jews being burned alive, a story now dismissed by all historians. Wiesel gives credence to the most absurd stories of other “eyewitnesses.” He spreads fantastic tales of 10,000 persons sent to their deaths each day in Buchenwald.
When Elie Wiesel and his father, as Auschwitz prisoners, had the choice of either leaving with their retreating German “executioners,” or remaining behind in the camp to await the Soviet “liberators,” the two decided to leave with their German captors.
It is time, in the name of truth and out of respect for the genuine sufferings of the victims of the Second World War, that historians return to the proven methods of historical criticism, and that the testimony of the Holocaust “eyewitnesses” be subjected to rigorous scrutiny rather than unquestioning acceptance.
Comment by Michael Santomauro — July 3, 2016 @ 12:43 pm
just put an H in front of his name and add WEASEL …he cannot even SHOW his TATOO …..lying shit that he is CRUCIFY THIS SHIT .
Comment by Robert Schmidt — October 1, 2011 @ 12:54 am
Furtherglory:
Wiesel makes use of some nonexistent poetic license when narrating a true event….and obviously he does every he can every time to enlarge the imagery of the story, kind like the Magic Realism from the sixties and seventies of the Latin american writers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses his skillful story teller, when in one hundred year of solitude , it rains for hundred days..anyhow there is that famous quote , his work Against Silence: The Voice & Vision of Elie Wiesel, Vol 2 (1985), Wiesel says of an alleged massacre of jews at Babi Yar, Ukraine:
“Later, I learned from a witness that for months after the massacre, the ground did not stop trembling and that from time to time, geysers of blood spurted up out of the earth.”
-wow, this not even Marques would not have written that….
Comment by sonico — September 30, 2011 @ 12:47 am