(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best jewish biographies

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account has been one of my favorite memoirs about Auschwitz. The doctor is spared in order to help Mengele.

Check out this book by Miklos Nyiszli. He was a Hungarian Jew taken to Auschwitz and made to work for Joseph Mengele. His work was a major source in my undergrad capstone research and details many duties of the Sonderkommando. It's an excellent read!
www.amazon.com/Auschwitz-A-Doctors-Eyewitness-Account/dp/161145011X/ref=la_B001K8O94Y_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342001947&sr=1-1

Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account https://www.amazon.com/dp/161145011X/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_fLYxxb9YMJCRX
The best and worst book I have ever read. It will answer all of your questions. This guy was Dr. Mengeles right hand man. Though he only did it to survive.

Dachau had 3 purposes as I recall: An internment camp, a work camp, and a camp for medical experiements. Good reads relevant to this topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment-I-G-Farben/dp/0029046300/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395615532&sr=1-1&keywords=crime+and+punishment+of+ig+farben

http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Practice-Hell-German-Concentration/dp/0374529922/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395615574&sr=1-1&keywords=theory+and+practice+of+hell

My friend, I feel for you. Spend some time reading up on the Nuremberg trials or read The Theory and Practice of Hell to get an idea of what really happened during the Holocaust before you make comparisons. This is not a topic that should be discussed so lightly...

I think part of it is that is a copy (that seems to be one) printed by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. I'd think that if you're going to the Auschwitz Memorial/Museum and picking up a copy, not a lot of people are going to sell them?

This translation is easier to get a hold of.

I just read this book a few weeks ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Auschwitz-Doctors-Eyewitness-Miklos-Nyiszli/dp/161145011X

About a doctor in Auschwitz who did autopsies.

'Wanderings', by Chaim Potok. (wiki link; Amazon link)

'My people', by Abba Eban. (Amazon link)

The author of this book...

http://www.amazon.com/Alicia-Appleman-Jurman/dp/0553282182

... actually came to our school when I was in the 7th grade.

http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Frank-Diary-Young-Girl/dp/067182449X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254375545&sr=8-4

read this book

https://www.amazon.com/Auschwitz-Doctors-Eyewitness-Miklos-Nyiszli/dp/161145011X

About a doctor in Auschwitz who did autopsies.

https://www.amazon.com/Auschwitz-Doctors-Eyewitness-Miklos-Nyiszli/dp/161145011X


An account of a jew who was spared of extermination because he performed surgeries on other jews caught in the Nazi's human experiments

Johanna Reiss' The Upstairs Room is a firsthand account of being a Jewish child in the Netherlands who was hidden during the war. She goes into quite a lot of detail about the process and experience so I think it might be quite helpful to you even though it's written at about a middle-school reading level.

I’m fascinated by the Jewish orthodox tradition of women covering their hair with wigs. That’s not the fascinating part, 😉. What I find fascinating is that “cheap” wigs are preferred because they’re more obvious. Essentially, the wearer wants people to know she’s wearing a wig.

I first learned about it in a memoir by Debra Feldman called Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GG0M60/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_bpmvDb4W31Y4M) and am wondering if you had any resources/suggestions where I could find out more.

you might like [this book, about "the banality of evil" by Hannah Arendt] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140187650/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=openculture-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140187650).

I suggest reading Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. It is a very chilling account of a Jewish pathologist working for the SS in the camps. I recently finished it before seeing these pictures, and they hit a nerve.

At one point he describes boiling the flesh off some corpses to obtain skeletons for research, and some prisoners actually started to eat some of the meat because they were so hungry. Sad stuff.

this is a very comprehensive look inside the internal structure and day-to-day life within Buchenwald, written by a guy who was there for six years as a prisoner. He gives some fascinating accounts of the ways in which the prisoners were able, despite all odds, to subvert the prison camp regime and assert a degree of autonomy - it had to do with the size of the camp, the sheer volume of prisoners and the kapo system. it's a very fascinating book.

A good book to read on the subject of Auschwitz is,
http://www.amazon.com/Auschwitz-A-Doctors-Eyewitness-Account/dp/161145011X

Be prepared to cry a lot. It's awful and hard to read about it. Also, they did kill a lot of people on arrival.

>Israel was given to the Jewish people after WWII

This is not accurate. Zionism predates WWII, and the early Zionists who colonized Palestine actually resented the holocaust victims. This is pretty complex history, and you need to read up on it more.

This book talks about that particular aspect.

And they sure weren't "given it" They were offered a two state solution after WWII, but instead they attacked British soldiers and sent thousands of Palestinians into exile in Jordan as refugees.

Oh, and Israel started those wars, not the Arabs.

There actually were a few. Not huge numbers, but the book Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account was written by a guy who did autopsies for Mengele.

Obviously your overall point is indeed correct, in that of course the state doesn't give a shit about the cause of death in people deliberately killed by the state, but some records do exist. Naturally, they've been faked by the reptilian Jewish overlords.

> On the one hand it's just silly to be overly dramatic and get totally freaked out

I've been thinking often lately of the above point ... I definitely get the importance of not jumping to "This is fascist / this is authoritarian" conclusions, 'cause it's not a worthwhile argument most of the time ... but that's most of the time, and this situation is outside of most of the time.

Our inability/trepidation on calling out this shit once now that it has actually arrived may be one of the most crucial pieces of his victory in ruining America's democracy. The lobster comparison is important here.

Last summer I read Amos Elon's The Pity of It All which is a super-thorough history of Jews in Germany from the mid-19th century up to the beginning of WWII ... I became obsessed with the subtle parallels between pre-fascist Germany and America in the modern day. You could feel the glimmers of authoritarian rule in the mid-1700s in Germany, and through reading the book by WWII it was like "Well, duh, of course shit went that way" ... I believe we're on the cusp of something horrid and we will look back on U.S. history with the same retrospective portentousness.

I hate making the Third-Reich comparison and everything, but it's appropriate at this point. It's like how Big Tobacco set up the playbook for obfuscating a company's ills and now Big Pharma / other companies who've seen their death on the horizon have a gameplan for staying somewhat afloat ... there is an authoritarian gameplan and we're watching it play out in the U.S.

Destruction of the Jews is official position of most of the Muslim world.

Has been since the founding of the faith.

Consider what the Palestinians thought BEFORE any occupation.

The Palestinian position was established in the early 1940s when their leader, the Grand Mufti, signed a pact with Hitler to exterminate the Jews in their respective areas of control. All Palestinian policy since then has had this goal, though to trick the useful idiot liberals in the West, it has been covered up by other slogans. Unfortunately, the Jews would not agree to commit suicide and fought back.

Inconvenient truths.

Barry Rubin & Wolfgang G. Schwanitz. Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East.(Yale, 2014). http://www.amazon.com/Nazis-Islamists-Making-Modern-Middle/dp/0300140908/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1JMR5PVASCYJDW2EFRC3

David G. Dalin & John F. Rothmann. Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam. (Tantor Audio, 2008) http://www.amazon.com/Icon-Evil-Hitlers-Mufti-Radical/dp/1400156718

Edwin Black. The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. (Dialog Press, 2010) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0914153145/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687622&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1400156718&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0K94YCQP3W0HRSKF52B7

Chuck Morse. The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini. (WND Books, 2010) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935071033/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687622&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1400156718&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0K94YCQP3W0HRSKF52B

Philp Mattar. The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin Al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement. (Columbia University Press, 1992) http://www.amazon.com/The-Mufti-Jerusalem-Al-Husayni-Palestinian/dp/0231064632/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1JMR5PVASCYJDW2EFRC3

David Motadel. Islam and Nazi Germany's War. (Belknap Press, 2014) http://www.amazon.com/Islam-Nazi-Germanys-David-Motadel/dp/0674724607/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_7?ie=UTF8&refRID=1JMR5PVASCYJDW2EFR

PART TWO OF TWO

(HOW DID MERMELSTEIN'S FATHER DIE? COUNT THREE WAYS)

• 1969 German Consulate, Los Angeles: during evacuation marches to Blechhammer from other camps
  
• 1979 "By Bread Alone": died in bed after working himself to death, trading food for cigarettes
  
• 1981 deposition: died of overwork and exhaustion
  
• 1985 deposition: exhaustion, cruelty, starvation and beatings
  
• other accounts: gassed at Auschwitz
  
  (MERMELSTEIN CARRIED BODIES FROM THE GAS CHAMBER TO THE CREMATORIA?)
  
  During Mermelstein's time in Auschwitz (May 21 - July 1, 1944), his account differed
  
  
• 1969: no occupation
  
• 1981: just some detail work, no physical work
  
• 1987: Ed Koch (New York Mayor) said he met Mermelstein during a tour of Auschwitz and was told "I was part of the special detail which hauled the bodies from the gas chamber and took them to the crematoria."
  
  (MERMELSTEIN WENT SWIMMING IN BLOOD?)
  
  
• Camp guards would kill an inmate if they didn't like the shape of your nose (suggesting his own nose was not unattractive)
  
• Bread was given not for nourishment but to kill inmates as fast as they expected them to die
  
• Mermelstein claimed to have gone swimming in blood despite claiming the tranportation to Buchenwald was "only for one purpose" (to be disposed of in the crematorium rather than "litter the beautiful towns and cities with our bodies"
  
• In 1981 deposition claimed to have personally known Dr. Miklos Nyiszli (Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account) and that Nyiszli would testify on his behalf about Mengele (but... Nyiszli had already died in 1956, some 25 years ago)
  
  (MERMELSTEIN'S SISTERS WERE STILL ALIVE AFTER HE ALLEGED THEY WERE GASSED)
  
  Mermelstein alleged his sisters had died in May 1944 and personally saw them being taken to the gas chamber but IHR found a German document dated October 12, 1944, or five months after their supposed deaths, listing 500 Jewish females being transported to Altenburg. Their names were Edith Mermelstein and Magda Mermelstein, the very same names of his sisters though their date of birth was not exactly as Mermelstein gave in his book.
  
  (GASSINGS WERE A NEW STORY)
  
  IHR proprosed that Mermelstein created the story about the gassing of his mother and sisters only after learning of IHR's reward since there was no mention prior to 1980 and in fact the first ever mention was in his letters attacking IHR in the summer of 1980.
  
  His book in 1979, statement to Auschwitz State Museum in 1967, sworn affidavit at the German Consulate in Los Angeles in 1969... none mention anything about witnessing any gassing. Prior to 1979 all detailed press accounts about his industrious activity as a lecturer, exhibitor of artifacts and museum proprietor never mention the story of the gassing of his mother and sisters.
  
  (THE SECOND TRIAL)
  
  The trial judge was Stephen Lachs, Jewish, the first avowed gay judge in California history and a member of American Civil Liberties Union. Despite Mermelstein's attorneys trying to appeal to the judge's Jewish backgrounds, Judge Lachs was a conscientious and impartial judge.
  
  Von Eches caved in at the last minute fearing ruin and paid $100,000 to Mermelstein along with an apology stating that Jews had been gassed at Auschwitz and millions more had perished in Auschwitz and other camps at the hands of the Germans.
  
  Hulsy's 49 pre-trial motions helped withstand and counter Mermelstein's case by his three lawyers (Lawrence Heller, Peter Bersin and Jeff Mausner)
  
  (PUBLIC FIGURE)
  
  Mermelstein refused to consider himself as a public figure. Mark Lane was able to lead him into making damaging admissions one by one that he was a:
  
  
• published author
  
• founder of "Auschwitz Study Foundation" (non-profit educational organization)
  
• curator of a Holocaust museum
  
• willing subject of scores of newspaper and magazine stories, radio and television interviews (i.e. a media star)
  
• eager accumulator of plaudits (praise) and testimonials from state and local governments, and laurels from Israel's PM Begin (political honoree)
  
• lecturer who has spoken some two decades at numerous colleges, high schools, synagogues, etc across the United States
  
  When asked how many lectures he has given on Auschwitz before 1985, Mermelstein said as many as "the fingers on my hands". Lane shows a typed list signed by Mermelstein of over 30 lectures given in 18 months in 1981-1982. Mermelstein then tried to be crafty and say he might have lectured more than once at the same place.
  
  After a break for lunch, O'Keefe recalled a deposition from 1985 where Mermelstein stated he gave an average of 20 lectures a year on Auschwitz since 1967 (i.e. 20 lectures multiplied by 18 years is some 360 lectures given). When presented with this, Mermelstein blurted "I mean the fingers of my hand and feet!" Bersin conceded that Mermelstein's status was that of a public figure.
  
  (MERMELSTEIN'S SUIT IS DISMISSED)
  
  Several days later, Judge Lachs, reviewing Mermelstein's characterization of IHR's 1985 settlement (on a New York City radio broadcast) claiming that IHR had signed the 1981 judicial notice of gassing at Auschwitz, declared it could be interpreted as defamatory and that IHR had probable cause to sue Mermelstein in 1986. Judge Lachs ruled in favor of IHR and dismissed Mermelstein's malicious prosecution complaint on September 19, 1991.
  
  Mermelstein voluntarily dismissed his libel and conspiracy complaints soon afterwards, his appeal of the ruling was unanimously rejected by the California Court of Appeal (Nott, Gates, Fukuto) on October 28, 1992, putting an end to the 11 year legal battle.

>Even orthodox historians no longer hold to the 6 million figure.

I would be very much interested to see some citation supporting this.

>Auschwitz was initially said to be 4 million, and was officially reduced to "1 - 1.5" million in 1989.

That estimate of 4,000,000 was Soviet propaganda, and only accepted by a minority of historians, even in the immediate post-war era.

>Oh wait, where did 2.9 million people go?

The 4,000,000 figure was never included in accepted estimates of overall deaths. Its refutation has been seized upon by deniers as evidence of some shady coverup, when in reality it was never part of the approximation of 6,000,000 dead. As such, there weren't "2.9 million people" to remove from the estimates.


Raul Hilberg (whom you mentioned) arrived at his number in 1961.

Another Holocaust scholar, Gerald Reitlinger published an estimate of 800,000-900,000 Jews murdered in Auschwitz in 1968.

Franciszek Piper, historian for the Auschwitz State Museum, himself in the 1980s estimated deaths at Auschwitz at just under 1,100,000. He arrived at this figure by examining records on the number of Jews deported to the camp, then subtracting out those who were transferred elsewhere, released, liberated, etc.

To be clear, Auschwitz was only the worst of the death camps, but hardly the only place (or method) where Jews and other hated ethnic groups were murdered en masse.

Some of the larger actual death camps were:

• Majdanek (78,000 of whom 61,000 were Jews);
  
• Chelmno (320,000);
  
• Treblinka (762,000);
  
• Sobibor (167,000), and
  
• Belzec (434,000-500,000)
  
  That's between 2,761,000 and 3,327,000 in just those camps alone plus Auschwitz. Those figures don't count all the many thousands of smaller camps (not death camps per se, but many Jews were murdered through abuse, overwork and starvation nonetheless), actions by Einsatzgruppen (estimated at 1.5M), etc.