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Denis Avey (11 Jan. 1919 – 16 July 2015) was a British soldier who was incarcerated at a PoW camp near the Auschwitz-Monowitz labor camp. In his 2011 memoirs titled The Man who Broke into Auschwitz, he claimed to have swapped places with a Jewish Monowitz inmate, so he could experience how the Jews were…
Henry Bily was a former member of the crematorium stokers at Auschwitz, later falsely called the Sonderkommando. In 1991, his memoirs were published in a French periodical for former deportees (Bily 1991). However, in the next issue of that periodical, the editors retracted his contribution, as it had turned out that Bily had plagiarized the…
In 1990, British retiree Joe Corry published a book titled Towards the Dawn about his alleged wartime experiences. In it, he claimed, among other things that he had assassinated a German scientist with a crossbow, watched D-Day from a house on the landing beaches, rescued the nuclear scientist Robert Oppenheimer from Holland, attached limpet mines…
Bruno Doessekker (born 12 Feb. 1941) is a Swiss national who invented from scratch the story of his alleged gruesome childhood spent at the Auschwitz and Majdanek Camps. It was published in 1998 as a book under the pen name Binjamin Wilkomirski (in English as Fragments), and was praised by the Holocaust orthodoxy for its…
A false witness is a person who falsely claims to have witnessed an event, when in fact he was not physically present at the time of the event. It is therefore irrelevant what such a person claims about the given event, as he cannot have any personal knowledge of it. This stands in contrast to…
Martin Gray (27 April 1922 – 24 April 2016), born Mieczyslaw Grajewski, was a Polish Jew who claimed to have been deported to the Treblinka Camp, from where he managed to escape. He then joined the Soviet NKVD and helped break up the Polish anti-communist underground. He initially immigrated to the United States in 1946,…
Marie Sophie Hingst (20 Oct. 1987 – 17 July 2019) was a German citizen of Protestant faith with a PhD in history. In a series of blog posts, she falsely portrayed the paternal side of her ancestors as Jewish. She claimed that 22 of her invented Jewish ancestors had died in the Holocaust. She submitted claims…
Joseph Hirt (born 1925) was a school psychologist at Chester County, Pennsylvania, until his retirement in 1993. Starting in 2001, he gave hundreds of presentations at churches, schools and other organizations about his alleged experiences during the war as an Auschwitz inmate. After attending one of Hirt’s presentations in April of 2016, history teacher Andrew…
In 2004, the Australian writer Bernard Brougham, alias Bernard Holstein, published a book recounting his time at Auschwitz, titled Stolen Soul. It turns out that the book was a complete fraud. In October of that year, the publisher, University of Western Australia Press, discovered the many lies in it and pulled copies of the book…
Magdolna Kaiser (née Beretka, born 20 July 1950) is a Serbian-German imposter with a long history of falsely pretending to be the descendant of some Jewish-Hungarian nobility. In 2014, she expanded her life built on pretense by claiming that she had found documents left in a Swiss bank safe by her late grandfather. That grandfather…
Rosemarie Koczy (5 March 1939 –12 Dec. 2007) was a German-American artist. Because of the claimed Jewish background of her parents, she stated that her entire family was deported in 1942 from Recklinghausen (Ruhr) to a subcamp of the Dachau Camp, when she was just three years old. She claimed to have experienced privations and…
Jerzy Kosinski (born Jozef Lewinkopf, 14 June 1933 – 3 May 1991) was a Polish Jew, whose family managed to get through the war by assuming the fake Catholic name “Kosinski.” He emigrated to the U.S. in 1957. In 1965, his first novel, The Painted Bird, appeared, which he claimed for many years was autobiographic…
Enric Marco (12 April 1921 – 21 May 2022) once was the president of the Spanish association of former inmates of the Mauthausen Camp, Amical de Mauthausen. Marco had claimed since the late 1970s to have been incarcerated in the German camps of Mauthausen and Flossenbürg during the war. During the 60th anniversary of the…
AJR Information, Vol. III, No. II, Nov. 1948, p. 2:[1] “The Nazi Alfred Mende who, after the war, had settled in Siegburg under the name Isaac Lewinson (see May issue of ‘AJR Information’) was recently sentenced to one year, three months imprisonment by the Siegburg Law Court. His story which, as far as Nazi crimes allow…
Otto Uthgenannt (born 1935) was a German claiming to have been incarcerated at the Buchenwald Camp. For years he travelled throughout Germany, telling school students his stories of suffering – until a German newspaper exposed him as a notorious, previously convicted forger and fraudster. Germany’s Jewish newspaper pointed out the core problem: “[German-Jewish] Historian Julius…
Monique de Wael (born 12 May 1937) is a Belgian Catholic who lost her parents during the Second World War. They had been arrested and deported by the German occupational forces for resistance activities, and never returned home. In 1988, de Wael immigrated to the U.S., where she wrote a book under the pen name…
During World War Two, Donald Watt (10 Aug. 1918 – 29 May 2000) was an Australian soldier. In 1995, Watt published his memoirs, titled Stoker. He claimed in it that he had been incarcerated at the Auschwitz Camp, where he was allegedly assigned to the Sonderkommando serving as a cremation furnace stoker. Due to its…
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