Yad Vashem Admits List of “Holocaust Victims” Isn’t “Accurate”

Yad Vashem—Israel’s official holocaust memorial center—has admitted for the first time that its “list of holocaust victims” is inaccurate and that the process of collecting names “is not 100 per cent fail-safe.”

The admission that the Yad Vashem list is made up without any evidence at all—a fact long known to holocaust students and Yad Vashem itself—came after the death of Marie Sophie Hingst—a German fantasist who pretended to be Jewish and who invented 22 “Jewish family members murdered in the Holocaust.

Hingst—who of course was given a “Golden Blogger” award for her holocaust fantasies—was originally revealed as a liar by a special report in Der Spiegel on June 06, 2019 (“The Historian Who Invented22 Holocaust Victims”).

In that report, Hingst—a German Ph.D. historian working at Dublin's Trinity College—was revealed as a fantasist who invented an entire Jewish family and submitted the names of 22 “holocaust victims” to the Yad Vashem “Pages of Testimony” database.

Hingst—whose (now deleted) blog “"Read On My Dear, Read On," apparently had 240,000 regular readers and her fantasies presented as fact won her the "Blogger of the Year 2017" award given out by the Golden Bloggers.

In a 2018 essay competition, Hingst also won the Financial Times' “Future of Europe” prize, and at the award ceremony in Dublin, she again told of the suffering endured by her allegedly Jewish family, comparing their fate with that of so-called refugees stranded on Europe's coasts.

Hingst also slightly changed the name of her great-grandfather from Josef Karl Brandl to 'Jakob Brandel' and said he was murdered along with his wife and children in Auschwitz in 1942.

Significantly, Hingst's Twitter followers were shown a photo of a letter from Yad Vashem thanking her for providing documents from her “murdered” family members. She filled out and signed 15 forms by hand on Sept. 8, 2013, and sent seven further documents by email, all of which were eagerly snapped up by Yad Vashem and included in their “list of murdered Jews” database.

As Der Spiegel reported:

Her father's family, the Hingsts, are featured in eight forms in Yad Vashem's Pages of Testimony, a memorial repository remembering the names and backgrounds of those murdered in the Holocaust. But the Stralsund City Archive has ruled out the existence of six of the people she submitted in Jerusalem. The archives have survived in their entirety and those names are nowhere to be found.

In addition to the 14 pages for the Hingst and "Brandel" families, the historian also submitted eight additional documents for people who perished in the Holocaust with the family names "Rosenwasser" and "Zilberlicht. As it happens, there are no traces of any of the people Hingst registered with Yad Vashem anywhere.

Yad Vashem had however accepted Hingst’s submission without question. Now, exposed as a hoax, they have admitted that their “Pages of Testimony” list is in fact made up precisely from random submissions.

As the Daily Mail reported (“Germanhistorian, 31, is found dead weeks after she was ridiculed for inventing 22Holocaust victims she claimed were relatives,” 1 August 2019):

Yad Vashem said that they are investigating the testimonies that Hingst submitted and added that 'the process is not 100 per cent fail-safe'. 

 The museum also said it would be removing the documents Hingst from the Pages of Testimony at the site. 

Readers of The Six Million: Fact or Fiction will recall that in "Chapter 2: The Number of Jews under Nazi Control", I pointed out that the Yad Vashem list of names was fake. I wrote as follows:

Section 11: Yad Vashem’s “Victim List” Compiled on Hearsay

Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the “Jewish victims of the Holocaust” claimed in 2014 to have a database of at least five million names of Jews who allegedly died during World War II. This list, even though it falls short of the “Six Million” (or even the “nine million”) has been compiled purely on hearsay.

Yad Vashem’s “Holocaust victims” database list is compiled online, and anyone, from anywhere, can submit a name by simply filling in an online form.

This “submission” is then automatically added to the “official death list,” a process which has resulted in almost all names appearing twice, and some as many as five times. Any submission is automatically accepted as “fact” without any further investigation.

Below is a typical Yad Vashem “Victims’ list” entry, made by someone claiming to be a nephew of a Berlin Jew. Note the complete lack of detail in this “report”—the “nephew” claims his uncle was arrested in 1941 in Berlin, and has no idea of the circumstances of his death, or any other details at all. The vast majority of entries in Yad Vashem’s register are of this nature.

Clearly, a list of names compiled under these conditions is open to the most outrageous fraud, and is no way reliable.

Despite this, Yad Vashem and the media regularly tout this “list of victims” as “proof” of the Holocaust.

New York Rabbi’s Funeral: The “Nazi Death Camp” Survivor Who was Never Even in a Concentration Camp, and Who was Only Ever Arrested by the Communists

The huge funeral of famous New York Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal has provided yet another example of the outrageous lies which the media perpetuates about the holocaust—in this case, claiming that he “survived the Nazi death camps,” even though he was never in any camp whatsoever, and in fact was only ever detained by Communists after the war.

The funeral of Rabbi Portugal, who died recently aged 95, was attended by tens of thousands of wailing Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn—but the media coverage of that event and his life provided the grotesque exaggerations which have become typical of any coverage of World War II.

First off the mark was The Jewish Press, which set the tone for the rest of the media. The Jewish Press is a weekly newspaper in New York, and describes itself as “America's Largest Independent Jewish Weekly.”

According to that newspaper’s article,titled “Skulener Rebbe, zt’l, is Laid to Rest,” Rabbi Portugal was “Born in Romania to the previous Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Eliezer Zusia Portugal zt’l and Rebetzin Shayna Rochel, the Rebbe came to the United States as an immigrant together with his father in 1960 after having survived the Nazi death camps in World War II.”

This claim was then instantly repeated by the rest of the media. The Daily Mail, in its extensive coverage of the Rabbi’s funeral (“Tens of thousands of HasidicJews crowd Brooklyn streets for funeral of popular rabbi, 95, who survived theHolocaust and despised the internet—and no one with a smartphone could touchthe coffin”) announced that “the popular Rabbi had survived the Nazi death camps and came to the United States in 1960.”

ABC News’s local broadcaster, Eyewitness News ABC 7, followed up in its coverage (“Thousands crowd Brooklyn streets for grand rabbi's funeral; 2officers hurt”) by repeating this claim that “The rabbi came to the United States in the 1960s after surviving Nazi death camps and was a mainstay in Borough Park and Williamsburg for decades.”

News12 Brooklyn’s coverage (“Thousands line the streets ofBorough Park for rabbi's funeral”) claimed that the “rebbe survived the Holocaust and went on to lead the Skulen synagogue for many years.”

USA Today’s coverage was provided by its local affiliate, the Rockland/Westchester Journal News, (“Large crowds mourned rebbe in Monsey today”) which said that “According to the Jewish Press, Portugal was born in Romania, in what is now Moldova, and immigrated to the United States with his father, Rabbi Eliezer Zusia Portugal, in 1960 after surviving the Holocaust death camps and an imprisonment by Romanian authorities for teaching Torah. The United Nations and U.S. officials intervened on their behalf to have them released.”

However, the Jewish Daily Forward—a “left wing” Jewish paper in New York, inadvertently exposed all these controlled media claims as lies. As the Daily Forward’s headline accurately revealed (“The Last Holocaust-Era Rebbe Dies, And ANeighborhood Shuts Down To Mourn”), Rabbi Portugal was never in a concentration camp, and was never even detained by the Germans during the war.

The Daily Forward revealed that “Portugal and his father left Sculeni, the community in Moldova from which their sect derives its name, before the outbreak of the Second World War.

“They spent the war in the Ukrainian city of Chernowitz, facing persecution there from both the Germans and the Soviets, who occupied the city at different times.
“After the war they traveled to Bucharest, Romania, where they sought and cared for Jewish war orphans, and aided the small remaining Jewish communities. Portugal’s father was arrested multiple times by the Soviets, who occupied Romania until 1968.
“In April of 1959, Romanian authorities arrested both Portugal and his father for suspected treason. Jewish groups in the U.S. raised concerns about the arrest. According to a 1960 report from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, United Nations officials intervened to secure the release of the two rabbis, and the U.S. State Department offered them citizenship. They were released in September of 1959, and arrived in the U.S. in August of 1960.”

In other words, Rabbi Portugal never even saw a concentration camp, much less “survived a death camp” and was ever only detained by the Communists.

Even though the facts are readily available, the media chose instead—as always—to simply repeat the outrageous lies.

This is in keeping with their standard line on the holocaust, which is to just repeat the “six million murdered” story no matter what the facts might show, hoping that endless repetition will smother any counter arguments.

The media quoted above will also never “retract” or “correct” their lies, another typical tactic of just leaving an “impression,”something which is another long-standing ploy in their holocaust story-tellingtechnique.