EYEWITNESSES OF GASSINGS ARE RARE #5

Eyewitnesses’ of gassings are rare. Only a small number of persons has ever claimed to have seen such execution gas chambers in operation, and their scant descriptions of homicidal gassings are typically cursory, vague and/or contradictory. As a number of historians have acknowledged, such testimony is not very credible. Holocaust historian Gitta Sereny has warned that quite a few of the familiar ‘eyewitness’ testimonies are nothing more than baseless hearsay.
Some of the best-known ‘memoirs’ of extermination gassings, she complains, are “partial or complete fakes, such as Jean-François Steiner’s Treblinka or Martin Gray’s For Those I Loved“.[15]
Similarly, the archives director of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust center has confirmed that more than 10,000 of the 20,000 ‘testimonies’ of jewish ‘survivors’ on file there are “unreliable.”
Many survivors, wanting “to be part of history“, apparently let their imaginations run away with them, director Shmuel Krakowski said in 1986.[16]
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Source
[15]
“The men who whitewash Hitler“, New Statesman (London), Nov. 2, 1979, pp. 672-673.
[16]
The Jerusalem Post (Israel), August 17, 1986, p. 1.