For many years Joseph Hirt, 91, would go around schools, academic institutions and other lecture venues to talk about his experiences from Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp.
Thousands of listeners sat glued to their seats hearing about the horrifying experiences Hirt and the other inmates went through, and he became one of the most popular Holocaust lecturers. It now turns out that his stories were invented.
This week the Pennsylvania native sent a 15-page letter to the American press, in which he confesses that he never was a prisoner in Auschwitz, and all of his talks used material that he had read from various sources. “I am writing today to apologize publicly for the damage I have caused by my descriptions of life at Auschwitz. I wasn’t an inmate there. I never meant to take away from the importance of all the real events by falsely claiming that I was involved in them,” wrote Hirt.
Suspicions of Hirt’s story first came up several weeks ago. In the course of a lecture in New York showed a visual representation telling the story of his escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau. One of the guests at the lecture was a historian named Andrew Reed, who suspected that the story was false due to some historical inaccuracies. After investigating the matter and determining that Hirt’s story cannot be true, Reed sent a 25-page letter to the press and to institutions who had hosted lectures by Hirt, claiming that “the 91-year old Holocaust survivor is an impostor.”
After being thus exposed, Hirt admitted that he had indeed invented his involvement in the stories and had misled thousands of people – who often left his lectures moved to tears – for many years. Hirt sent a letter of apology to Reed, the historian, in which he explained that after reading the memoirs of Primo Levi – a Holocaust survivor who became a prominent historian and public intellectual – he was very moved and had Levi’s number from Auschwitz, 174517, tattooed on his arm. He then used Levi’s story and presented it as his own.
“In order to commemorate Primo Levi’s life and remind myself of his influence on my ways of thinking, I had his camp number tattooed on my left arm. I didn’t mean to steal his identity at the time, I just wanted to remember him,” Hirt wrote in his public letter.
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WHAT? HE WASNT ONE OF THE 6 KAZILLION THAT WAS TORTURED AND GASSED?????????????????????????/ IM FREAKIN FLABBERGASTED!
How many Germans were murdered to get this jewish story off the ground.
Talk to your pastor call him a murderer a killer of children and more sick crimes. Now you are going to make a millions of dollars plus all kinds of political hay for about 100 years off of this story. Just between you him and the fense post we know the story is false. Now here is the fun part how many people do you have to kill to get YOUR STORY OFF THE GROUND. Tell that god damn pastor to give you a full list of name and addresses so you can kill them all. So there is only one side of the story.
I can keep going. But should this not be discussed in a public setting.
1000s of people were murdered to get this holocaust story off the ground.
Plus with THE Holocaust came another jewish story that stuck to all Europeans its called RACISM ever here of that. So when some one calls you a racist you say NO GAS CHAMBERS NO HOLOCAUST.
Here is why with out the WW2 holywood ending the holocaust there could never been white racism to add to the story and have the jews curse at the white race at the global level while championing the blacks and all the rest who envy us.
That statement is broke up big time….maybe I’m missing something?
http://www.rense.com/general69/factua.htm
ALL EM DEAD JEWS……………………….
Red cross says 210000 died in all the work camps.a copy is on rense.com
Maybe I should grow a beard, tattoo a number on my arm, and try the same routine. I’d get an authentic Jew hat, the long black coat, and make my way in the world by suing for holocaust reparations.
“Oy, Vey… how we suffered in the camps. The horror. The death. The tragedy. If you don’t give me more money, I might have to work for a living, and that’s worse than the camps. Oy, Vey”.
Don’t ferget man.ya gotta hump that wall
Another imposter being revealed from the holohoax. The truth is getting out more and more each day. The whole holocaust thing has been one big lie after another.