The story of Alex Kurzem, a purported Holocaust survivor living in Australia who claims he was adopted by the Nazis and made into their child mascot, comes under fresh scrutiny.
ed note–the obvious question (s) here that must be asked (but won’t)
1. HOW MANY OTHER tales involving the uniqueness of Jewish suffering collectively referred to as’the shoah’ are hoaxes as well?
and
2. IS THIS the reason that the Holocaust must be protected with the force of law and threat of imprisonment for those who dare to suggest that there is something not quite right about all these tall tales?
Haaretz
The controversial case of a purported Holocaust survivor living in Australia who was adopted by the Nazis and made into their child mascot is being re-examined by the Claims Conference amid fresh allegations of a Holocaust hoax.
Claims Conference Executive Vice President Greg Schneider confirmed to Haaretz this week that the case of Uldis (Alex) Kurzem had been handed over to its ombudsman, Israel-based Shmuel Hollander, who was appointed last year after multiple scams against the German government totaling $57 million were discovered.
“The Claims Conference is taking this matter with the utmost of seriousness,” Schneider said.
The investigation was upgraded after the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem weighed into the controversy last week, alleging that the evidence surrounding Kurzem, who has been receiving reparations from Germany since 1999, “points to a scam.”
In a blistering letter to Claims Conference officials, Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Wiesenthal Center’s Israel office, wrote: “In every respect, Kurzem’s story and behavior arouse suspicion after suspicion.
“Everything in this case appears to point to a scam, but only a comprehensive investigation can finally determine whether Kurzem is indeed a Holocaust survivor, which I very much doubt, or an impostor whose main motivation was to gain fortune and fame by distorting his unusual wartime experiences,” Zuroff wrote.
Kurzem, a Melbourne-based pensioner approaching his 80th birthday, claims he witnessed his mother, brother and sister being massacred in 1941 in the village of Koidanov (now in Belarus) before escaping and being adopted by a Latvian SS guard who took pity on him, gave the Aryan-looking kid a new name (Uldis Kurzemnieks), a Nazi uniform and made him his battalion’s mascot.
Dubbed “the Reich’s youngest Nazi,” Kurzem claimed he managed to hide his Jewish identity from the SS and told his incredible story in “The Mascot” – an award-winning documentary aired in 2004 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation – and a bestselling book published by Penguin in 2009. The documentary and the book, written by Kurzem’s now-deceased son Mark, sparked a flurry of international headlines about his astonishing survival.
Kurzem’s application for reparations was initially rejected by the Claims Conference before being approved in 1999. He is believed to have accrued in excess of $50,000 since then, which Zuroff says should be repaid if it is proven that he is a fraud.
Kurzem has vehemently denied fraud allegations since questions about the veracity of his story were first raised by two American investigators after his story was featured on CBS’ prestigious news magazine “60 Minutes” in 2009.
Dr. Barry Resnick and Dr. Colleen Fitzpatrick, both from California, first approached the Claims Conference that year and have since presented officials with a dossier of evidence they claim suggests irregularities and inconsistencies in Kurzem’s story, as Haaretz reported last September.
Resnick, who lost family during the Holocaust, presented his findings to Zuroff in Jerusalem in December. A harsh critic of the Claims Conference, Resnick welcomed the ombudsman’s intervention.
“After dozens of appeals through e-mails, letters and phone calls over almost four years, Mr. Hollander is the only one from the Claims Conference who has shown an interest in finding the truth,” Resnick said.
Alex Kurzem gained worldwide acclaim for a book and documentary about his Holocaust survival story but now faces calls to provide proof.Courtesy
Kurzem told Haaretz that the upgraded investigation was “distressing” but maintained his innocence. “One hundred percent, I will prove them wrong,” he said of his naysayers.
“They’ve been investigating for the last five years. They won’t come up with anything. If they stop [the reparations] I can’t do anything, but they have no reason to,” he added.
Resnick and Fitzpatrick do not contest that Kurzem was rescued by a Latvian battalion in 1942 or that he became their mascot. But, they argue, there is no historical documentation to support his claims that he is Jewish or that his family was murdered by the same Latvians who rescued him.
“There is not one thread of evidence that supports the premise of this story, nor is there any proof Mr. Kurzem is Jewish,” Resnick said.
But an affidavit signed in 1998 by Frida Reizman, of the Jewish survivors’ society in Minsk, certifies that Kurzem was born Ilya Solomonovich Galperin, that his mother, brother and sister were massacred in Koidanov, and that his father survived Auschwitz, remarried and had a son, Erik, who lives in Minsk and is Alex’s half-brother.
Resnick and Fitzpatrick believe the English translation of the affidavit may have been forged and they claim there is no record of an Ilya Galperin from Koidanov at Yad Vashem.
Fitzpatrick, a forensic genealogist specializing in DNA identification, says if Kurzem was indeed born Ilya Galperin he should take a test to prove his DNA matches that of his half-brother.
Although Kurzem has repeatedly pledged to take the test, he has yet to do so and previously told the Herald Sun newspaper he would only do it for $100,000. He later defended his comment, telling Haaretz he was protesting the allegations of a Holocaust hoax by Resnick and Fitzpatrick.
“Everything about his responses to doubts expressed about the veracity of his narrative only increase the suspicions that he has something to hide,” Zuroff wrote in his letter to Claims Conference officials.
Fitzpatrick, who met Kurzem in Melbourne in April last year, said: “I have been part of two other major Holocaust fraud exposures, and I believe the back-story of the creation of ‘The Mascot’ is very much the same as the back-story of the creation of the Misha Defonseca and Herman Rosenblat frauds.”
Defonseca wrote the bestselling book “Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years” in 2007 but two years later confessed that she is not Jewish and that she spent the war safely in Brussels. Rosenblat’s proposed book, “Angel at the Fence,” was nixed in 2008 after he admitted his recollection of a girl throwing him apples over the fence of a sub-camp of Buchenwald was fabricated.
The two Americans also point to the fact that Kurzem signed an affidavit in 1972 saying he was “grateful” to Nazi SS Colonel Karlis Lobe because his “life was saved” by him. “To provide written support for a brutal killer of Jews and then to turn around and ask the Claims Conference for reparations is despicable,” Resnick said.
But Carol Reginio, a longstanding acquaintance who has been caring for Kurzem since his wife died a decade ago, defended Kurzem.
“He’s sweetest, kindest, gentlest man you could ever meet,” she said. “He’s had a lot of people attack him for what he’s done. He’s not out to make money – that’s something his son eventually did. Alex is still broke, he’s a pensioner.”
She added: “People tend to forget he was a little boy, 5 years old. Everything he’s said is the truth. He’s a very upfront, honest man, he’s not out to deceive anybody.”
But Resnick said it was remarkable that “despite remembering extensive details of what happened when he was 5 years old, Mr. Kurzem somehow could not remember his own name.”
Resnick and Fitzpatrick say if the Claims Conference stops Kurzem’s reparations they plan to launch legal action against the Penguin Group (USA) and Alex Kurzem on behalf of everyone who bought the best-seller believing the story was true. “The Mascot” was translated into more than a dozen languages.
But Kurzem maintains he never knew his real birth name until the Jewish survivors’ society in Minsk connected the dots in the mid-1990s. “As far as I know it’s true unless someone can prove otherwise,” he said. “You can’t condemn a story unless you come up with something different.”
#1 by Gavin on February 9, 2013 - 4:10 pm
The two biggest scams in history, both done by Zionists; The “Holocaust” and 9-11.
9-11 sits there like a ripe, sweet mango, just waiting to be plucked, yet people are forgetting about it. It’s the one thing that would finish off the terrorist, criminal nation of Israel; what are we waiting for?
#2 by Eva F. on February 9, 2013 - 5:55 pm
By Mark Weber- Buchenwald: legend and reality…….confirmed in the detailed US army intelligence document of 24 April 1945 – Buchenwald: a preliminary report- ” there is no question that many actrocities were commited against Buchenwald inmates. However, at least a very large portion of them were commited not by the SS guards, but by THE UNDERGROUND COMMUNIST CAMP ORGANISATION that gained almost total internal control after 1943.”
#3 by Bob on February 9, 2013 - 6:04 pm
As the days, weeks, months and years slip by, the 9/11 conspiracy will become like the JFK conspiracy. Eventually the majority will come to believe that the official version is nonsense and that there was some kind of conspiracy (although all of the disinformation will prevent a clear cut explanation from ever taking hold in the public consciousness) but it will be seen as “history” with no particular relevance to the present.
The truth is that overwhelming evidence exists in the public domain which points to the central role of Jewish power in both events, but of course this fact will continue to be hidden behind a never ending barrage of disinformation. Even today, more than 50 years after the JFK assassination, Jewish power is still maintaining this stream of disinformation about the JFK assassination and there is every reason to believe they will do the same with 9/11.
We will not defeat Jewish power by exposing things like the JFK assassination or 9/11. These things will be proven only AFTER Jewish power is defeated. The key to defeating Jewish power lays in exposing the systems through which Jewish power exercises control over the rest of us. These systems are solid, real and easily proven. Unlike conspiracies like 9/11, these systems cannot be hidden by disinformation campaigns. They are the elephants in the room which are hidden in plain sight with nothing more than constant denials and avoidance of questions being their only shield from discovery by the general public.
The two most vulnerable systems to exposure are Jewish control of the mass media and of the monetary system. Either is easy enough to prove, but it is their control of the monetary system which is the true source of their power and the one which provokes the most profound shock and anger on the part of people who discover it. It is their primary source of power and their achilles heel. It is the one thing which we should be hammering away at relentlessly. IT IS THE KEY. The sooner we all realize this, the sooner we may rid ourselves of this pernicious Jewish power structure.
Bob
#4 by kpatryan on February 9, 2013 - 7:15 pm
It took some reading of that article to finally get to the salient point … I’m thinking to myself ‘now why would a gang of thieves be angry at another thief for stealing from Germany and making money off a book of lies?’
Then we finally see what has them jumpin’ mad: “…they argue, there is no historical documentation to support his claims that he is Jewish…”
Let that be a lesson to all (even old men and women) – unless you’ve been Chosen it isn’t cool to run a con.
#5 by Bob on February 9, 2013 - 11:16 pm
“there is no historical documentation to support his claims that he is Jewish”
PRECISELY.
This is their scam and like everything else in this world, it exists exclusively for the benefit of Jews. For a Gentile to attempt to benefit from t his is heresy. LIke you, it took a moment for me to catch on to what the gist of the complaint was. They do not dispute that the man was adopted by an SS unit as its mascot at the age of 5 (this alone would be sufficient proof of his claim for reparations if he were in fact Jewish). They do not dispute that he “survived” the “holocaust” and the war, or that he was in fact in harms way. What they dispute is his Jewishness and after all if he isn’t a Jew, then his suffering is not worthy of remembrance much less compensation.
#6 by mothman777 on February 10, 2013 - 12:06 am
A German finance minister stated some years ago that there had been over 5 million claims for compensation from Holocaust ‘survivors’ with 1 million of these fake ‘survivor’ parasites still alive and claiming today.
Yet we know that there were only 3.5 million Jews in all of German occupied territory in WWII, and 2.2 million of that figure emigrated to Russia before the outbreak of serious hostilities.
250,000 Jews lived in France throughout the war and were never deported.
150,000 non-Communist Jews served in Hitler’s armed forces in WWII, and they must have had many Jewish family members too, who were obviously never sent to any ‘death camps’. If there were really any such death camps, then 150,000 well-trained, heavily armed and heavily motivated Jewish soldiers would have destroyed the German armed forces from within by armed mutiny.
50,000 Zionist Jews were given work training and taken by boat to live in Palestine, though without the intent that a Jewish state should ever be formed there, as Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that the Jews should never be granted their own state, otherwise it would quickly turn into a base for international criminal operations that would become untouchable, just as the Samson Option, the US 1991 Noahide Laws, and 9/11 all prove is true.
The main reason for this particular state of affairs that exists today in Israel and the rest of the Jewish community worldwide is the granting of statehood to Israel after the war by the traitorous ‘allies’ and their cronies in the Jewish dominated UN, and the shipping of vast numbers of Bolshevik Russian Jews to Israel who have entirely subverted the ethos of the Jewish community, into something entirely Stalinist.
Jewish controlled disinformation experts constantly ram the false propaganda into everyone, even convincing the most genuine and sincere campaigners against Talmudism and Israel, that so-called fake Jews, or Ashkenazim, like those shipped by Germany to Palestine, are the main perpetrators behind the evil that Israel does today, erroneously calling them AshkeNAZIS.
The genetic study performed by Professor Karl Skorecki proved that the Ashkenazim, despite having converted a few hundred years ago, are in fact nonetheless of Jewish origin, having merely been one of those groups of Jews that had emigrated centuries earlier from the Bible lands, and then taken up different identities, before being taken back ‘into the fold’ as lost children of Israel, becoming fully-fledged Jews once again.
Professor Karl Skorecki has found that the particular genetic markers of the Jews in the Bible lands from 3,300 years ago are still perfectly intact in both Ashkenazim and Sephardim, with a subsequent study by another authority showing that present day native Palestinians also share the same unique DNA characteristics, proving the genuine ancient Israel origins of the Ashkenazim from 3,300 years ago, despite the ‘theories’ of racial migration propounded by several authors of Jewish origin that carefully cover up the origin of the Ashkenazim as real Jews.
Thus, when Israel does something bad, the Jews can deny any responsibility, and claim that it is the Gentiles themselves, those AshkeNAZIS, with German ‘Nazi’ connotations, who have (re)converted to Judaism, who are responsible, and not the ‘good’ Jews claimed to be the only ones of real ancient Israeli extraction. Even the Israeli Ynet media source very recently published an article claiming that Israeli Jews are not real Jews, in an attempt to further that propaganda.
After all, it was Theodor Herzl himself, the founder of the modern Zionist political movement, that stated “We will lead every revolution against us.” And that propaganda ploy is yet another example of the mastery of their technique of lying and manipulation, to create ever more layers of confusion and subterfuge.
The official document of the International Red Cross, stating the total of all different peoples who died in all the camps from all causes, is 271,305 in total, with between 50,000 to 70,000 of this total being Jewish, those Jews having died due to various causes, allied bombing of rail and roads cutting off food supplies, even from bombs having hit the camps, as I have seen a photo of well-fed dead inmates laid out in front of bombed in barracks, executions for criminal offences such as sabotage, terrorism, and murder of other inmates, as Communist Jews would frequently murder non-Communist Jews to enforce obedience to the Communist cause, and of course starvation and disease, this having occurred only during the last few months of the war, being in no way deliberate, and photos can be obtained of German civilians dead in huge piles also, like matchsticks with no flesh on, one such photo being easily found in the book by AR Butz on the hoax of the holocaust, from Dresden, where many Germans died after the bombings there due to starvation when the transport routes were all blown up.
The Jewish world population after the war actually increased according to various Jewish censuses, several of these having been compiled by the Jews themselves. The following figures are quoted from an article:
1948 – WHERE ARE THE SIX MILLION JEWS OF THE HOLOCAUST ? or
”THE REAL VICTIMS OF WW2”, ACCORDING TO WORLD ALMANAC POPULATION FIGURES 1934 – 1948.
The World Almanac notes the following populations :
“In 1934 (before WW2) : Christians 682,400,000, Jews 15,315,000.
In 1948 (after WWII) : Christians 592,406,542, Jews 15,753,638.
Absolute difference : Christians MINUS 89,993,458, Jews PLUS 438,648.
“Thus, according to the most credible Jewish and Christian sources in the world, there were 89,993,458 FEWER Christians after the war, and 438,648 MORE Jews after the war, than there were before. But, at the historic growth rate of the Christian population of 1.5% per year, the 682,400,000 Christians in the world in 1933 would have been 853,158,362 by 1948. Instead, mostly due to WWII, the actual population was 592,406,542, this is 260,751,820 fewer Christians than there would have been without WWII.”
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So, WWII, just like WWI, was in fact another Stalinist purge of millions of Christians, not Jews, but made to appear the very opposite, arranged so as to make the victims attack each other and pity their murderers, just as Stalin had 66 million Christians murdered in Russia in the most foul ways possible.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” Gutle Schnaper, Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s wife.
“Wars are the Jews harvest, for with them we wipe out the Christians and get control of
their gold. We have already killed 100-million of them, and the end is not yet.” (Chief
Rabbi in France, in 1859, Rabbi Reichorn).
At the time of 1859, the entire world population was around 1,000,000,000
“We shall drive the Christians into war by exploiting their national vanity and stupidity.
They will then massacre each other, thus giving room for our own people.” (Rabbi
Reichorn, in Le Contemporain, July 1st, 1880)
“Israel won the war [WW I]; we made it; we thrived on it; we profited from it. It was
our supreme revenge on Christianity.” (The Jewish Ambassador from Austria to
London, Count Mensdorf, 1918).
#7 by Edie on February 10, 2013 - 2:54 am
The primary enablers are the genocide endorsing Christian leaders who have sway over 120 million evangelicals. They’ve thrown Christ under the bus because of the writings of Scofield? Yeah I’m sure it has nothing to do with the gargantuan sums of money that Ray McGovern talks about. They have to be exposed as the snake oil salesmen they are.
#8 by p.j. on February 10, 2013 - 4:02 am
The difference between JFK and 911 is the Internet.
There is a point of precipitation where something solid starts to emerge from a reaction. Nobody is forgetting 911, it is the pivotal day in History.
#9 by michael mazur on February 10, 2013 - 5:45 am
Data much appreciated, mothman.
Yuri Lina in his 2011 vid, In the Shadow of Hermes, quoted from Literaturnaya Rossiya of 1992 that the total number of victims of the Soviet regime, including those who died of induced starvation and civil war, was 147,000,000.
This was at 1:32:32 of the 1hr59video, but some weeks later when i was drawn to watching it a second time, that reference was no longer there.
#10 by Ingrid B on February 10, 2013 - 8:54 am
“Although Kurzem has repeatedly pledged to take the test, he has yet to do so and previously told the Herald Sun newspaper he would only do it for $100,000″ : typical..
such a fuss if anyone scams the jews, I say good luck to them..
#11 by Blake on February 10, 2013 - 10:28 am
Nice comments. Nothing to add.
#12 by mothman777 on February 11, 2013 - 1:37 am
@ #9 by michael mazur
Hi Michael.
I watched the film by Juri Lina too, a long while back, which contains much very deep research. I saw that figure of 147 million dead too, and thought maybe it was an excessively high estimate, but Russia did cover one sixth of the entire land surface of the world, so many more people could have been living there than has been supposed, and the Jewish Masonic bankers did express their appreciation to Lenin and Trotsky over their progress with the plan to exterminate everyone except 10% of the total population of Russia, though I think that obviously they were never entirely successful in that endeavour in the end, judging from the huge numbers of Russians alive at the time of Stalin.
Still, the Jews will continue their plan to exterminate the lot of us no doubt, unhindered, as usual, and the Noahide Laws will be passed unchallenged everywhere that the Chabad Lubavitchers wish.
It will be interesting to see if the international media ever features a single article stating that in some country or other, some government or politician has challenged the adoption of the Noahide Laws in that country.
I don’t think we will ever see that, though I am somewhat doubtful that the Lubavitchers will manage to have those laws put in place in every country in the world, but then again, they have been infiltrating the upper echelons of society in every country in the world for thousands of years.
#13 by Bob on February 12, 2013 - 3:08 am
PJ, I can only point out that nobody forgot the JFK assassination either and that it too was a pivotal event in our history. It was the assassination of JFK and the installation of Johnson in the White House that cemented Jewish control of the United States. I was this event that made possible the expansion of the Vietnam war and expanded US support to Israel as well as preventing AIPAC (actually its successor) from having to register as the agent of a foriegn power (that everyone knows it is). But most importantly, it was the JFK assassination that forced the American people into this massive debt hole.
JFK had already figured out the scam the bankers were running with their Federal Reserve and had officially taken away the FED’s exclusive right to create currency and re-established the governments power to print its own money as it needed rather than paying the banksters to create it. JFK had already had a substantial sum of new money printed as “treasury notes” (instead of the Federal Reserve Notes we see today). With all of the theories about why JFK was killed, this is the one rarely mentioned (never mentioned in the MSM). It is also the most powerful motive for having him killed. If his policy of printing money rather than “borrowing” it from the banksters had continued, it would have severely undercut Jewish power and deprived the banking cartels of the stupendous wealth they have been able to transfer from American citizens to themselves over the intervening half century. Think about it…If JFK had lived, we would likely have no real national debt, or at least a very small one.
I would argue that the JFK assassination was an even more pivotal event in US history than 9/11.
#14 by isaac on February 13, 2013 - 2:51 pm
of course the Jews murdered JFK so Israel could go nuclear. Lyndon B. Johnson was a Jew himself and gave the Jews all they needed to start wars in the Middle East.
#15 by Jake on February 15, 2013 - 6:18 am
I see these words thrown around alot, “The Holocaust” – The jews can call their time under the Nazis whatever they want. They can call it the Booby Tubey if they want.
Does that make make me a Booby Tubey denier?