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In November 1970, a resident of the city of Ausch­witz handed over a manuscript in Yiddish that he claimed to have found in a glass jar within the ruins of Crematorium III. Since that building was completely obliterated in late 1944 when the Germans blew it up, it is safe to say that a glass…

Leo Laptos was an Auschwitz inmate, who worked at Birkenau as a pharmacist. After his transfer to the Dutch camp of Vught, he reported that at Ausch­witz people were killed in gas chambers equipped with showerheads emitting gas rather than water. However, the product allegedly used at Auschwitz, Zyklon B, contains liquid hydrogen cyanide absorbed…

David Lea was a Greek Jew deported to Ausch­witz on 9 May 1943, where he claims to have been assigned to the Son­der­kom­man­do, but on 6 September 1943, he was transferred away from Auschwitz. When he was interviewed in Paris in August 1946, he made disconnected and at times contradictory statements in words that are…

Olga Lengyel (19 Oct. 1908 – 15 April 2001) was a Hungarian Jewess deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944. After the war, she wrote a book which appeared in an English translation in 1947 with the title Five Chimneys or I Survived Hitler’s Ovens, depending on the edition. In it, she claimed regarding…

In early 1945, when impressions were still fresh of the alleged atrocities uncovered by the Soviets after they had occupied first the Majdanek Camp in August 1944 and then the Auschwitz Camp in January 1945, Paddy Costello, an official at the embassy of New Zealand in Moscow, was at Lublin and visited the Majdanek Camp….

Leon (Jehuda) Lerner was deported to Sobibór in the summer of 1943. In his deposition recorded in Haifa on 16 December 1959, he claimed that the Sobibór gas chambers operated by an SS man throwing in Zyklon-B gas. This claim is rejected as false by the orthodoxy, who insists on engine-exhaust gasses as the toxic…

In 1946, the “eyewitness account” of Simcha Lesky about his brief stay at the Treblinka Camp was published in a Jewish historical journal. Lesky arrived there at the end of July 1942, and managed to escape just four days later. According to this, inmates in a hidden part of the camp were killed with machine…

André Lettich was a French Jew deported to Auschwitz on 20 July 1942. Between September 1942 and March 1943, he claims to have served as an inmate physician for members of the so-called Son­der­kom­man­do. In 1946, he wrote a memorandum, in which he claimed the following about the alleged exterminations at Auschwitz, among other things:…

Primo Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist who, due to his activities as a partisan fighter, was deported to Auschwitz, where he ended up in the Monowitz labor camp, deployed at the BUNA factories. Under international law, partisan fighters could be executed, and as a Jew, Levi should…

Robert Lévy was a French-Jewish professor of medicine from Strasbourg deported to Auschwitz in September 1942, where he was deployed as a surgeon working at the Ausch­witz inmate hospital. In a 1947 article, he reported about his experiences in Auschwitz. He claimed no direct knowledge of the alleged extermination procedure, but summarized what he had…

The story of Salmen Lewental resembles that of the manuscript allegedly written by a certain Leib Langfus. In this case, two containers were found in 1961 and 1962, respectively, both near the ruins of Crematorium III at Birkenau. The first find contained a diary of an unknown author kept in the Lodz Ghetto, plus six…

Pelagia Lewińska was a Polish Jewess admitted to the Ausch­witz Camp on 28 January 1943. After the war, she wrote a short book that was published in Polish and French in 1945. Here are some revealing claims made by Lewińska about the claimed exterminations: In 1944, the number of crematoria at Auschwitz was increased to…

Mordecai Lichtenstein wrote a report in 1945 in London about his alleged experien­ces at the Auschwitz Camp, where we read, among other things: Sometimes those entering the gas chamber were given a towel and a piece of soap. This most certainly would never have happened, considering the mess it would have created and the effort…

Icek (or Itzhak) Lichtmann was an inmate of the Sobibór Camp. In a deposition of 18 December 1945, he located the (meaning one) gas chamber at a distance of 200 m away from the camp. After the murder, the floors opened, and the bodies were discharged into carts below, which brought them to mass graves….

Henri Limousin was a professor of medicine from Clermont-Ferrand (France), who was incarcerated at the Auschwitz Camp until it was conquered by the Soviets on 27 January 1945. Together with three other European professors, and coached by their Soviet captors, he signed an appeal on 4 March 1945 “To the International Public,” which contained many…

Sofia Litwinska was a Polish Jewess incarcerated at Ausch­witz from mid-1942 until November 1944. She was later transferred to Bergen-Belsen. She signed an affidavit on 24 May 1945 and took the stand on 24 September 1945. Her noteworthy claims are: Together with some 300 other inmates, she was taken by “‘Tipper-type’ lorries [meaning a dump…