After a small and randomized study of the Yad Vashem archives, National Justice can report that after a search of approximately 15 famous Holocaust survivors, five are listed as having been explicitly murdered, in some cases multiple times.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Many Holocaust survivors go by names like Joe, Fred, and Henry — not likely to be what they were assigned at birth. Many female ones have changed their names through marriage. Others have changed their names, especially those who moved to Israel.
Yet, even with all of this in mind, the results are shocking.
Dario Gabbai
Dario Gabbai, who died in March 2020, became famous for claiming to have been a Sonderkommando who helped gas Jews at Auschwitz. He was exposed by Dean Irebud in 2012 as a fraud.
Gabbai, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1922, is listed in the Yad Vashem archives as having been “murdered” at Auschwitz three times.
Benjamin Lesser
Benjamin Lesser is the founder of the Zachor Holocaust Memorial Foundation. Lesser claims to have survived Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau, and currently tours the country telling Holocaust stories. He has been featured prominently in the media.
According to his biography, he was born in Krakow, Poland in 1928.
In the Shoah victims archive, he too is listed as “murdered in the Shoah.” The source used by the database is the testimony of another well-known “survivor” named Rachel Verderber, who herself appears in the archive!
Josef Salomonovic/Salomonowicz
Josef Salomonivic/Salomonowicz (Polish spelling) is another Holocaust media personality. He says he was sent to Auschwitz. According to his testimony, the Nazis killed all the children he knew except for him. Later, Nazi officers murdered his father by injecting phenol in his heart, then taunted 6-year-old Josef with the syringe.
In his biography, he says he was born 1938 and resided in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. He too is listed as having been “presumably murdered” — twice. There are multiple additional entries for a Josef Salomonowicz in the Lodz ghetto born around the same time, which may also be him.
The source cited? A census of Jews who lived in Lodz provided to the Yad Vashem by a group called “Organization of former residents of Lodz in Israel.”
Margit Buchhalter Feldman
Margit Feldman (née Buchhalter), another “Holocaust” survivor famous enough to be commemorated by name by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, passed away last month from the Coronavirus, as reported by NBC News.
Buchhalter held throughout her life that she was able to survive Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen just by lying to the Nazis about her age (18, instead of 15). Her parents were Joseph and Theresa Buchhalter.
She was born in Hungary and resided there during WWII. Her fate is registered as “murdered,” the source being a “list of murdered Jews from Yizkor books.”
Yitzhak Arad/Izak Rudnicki
Izak Rudnicki, born in Poland in 1926, is a “Holocaust” historian and survivor who changed his name to Arad after moving to Israel.
Despite having served as director of the Yad Vashem for 21 years (1972-1993), Arad/Rudnicki is listed in its files as having been murdered in the Holocaust. Once again, a random list of Jews in ghettoes is used as evidence.
After a small and randomized study of the Yad Vashem archives, National Justice can report that after a search of approximately 15 famous Holocaust survivors, five are listed as having been explicitly murdered, in some cases multiple times.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Many Holocaust survivors go by names like Joe, Fred, and Henry — not likely to be what they were assigned at birth. Many female ones have changed their names through marriage. Others have changed their names, especially those who moved to Israel.
Yet, even with all of this in mind, the results are shocking.
Dario Gabbai
Dario Gabbai, who died in March 2020, became famous for claiming to have been a Sonderkommando who helped gas Jews at Auschwitz. He was exposed by Dean Irebud in 2012 as a fraud.
Gabbai, born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1922, is listed in the Yad Vashem archives as having been “murdered” at Auschwitz three times.
Benjamin Lesser
Benjamin Lesser is the founder of the Zachor Holocaust Memorial Foundation. Lesser claims to have survived Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau, and currently tours the country telling Holocaust stories. He has been featured prominently in the media.
According to his biography, he was born in Krakow, Poland in 1928.
In the Shoah victims archive, he too is listed as “murdered in the Shoah.” The source used by the database is the testimony of another well-known “survivor” named Rachel Verderber, who herself appears in the archive!
Josef Salomonovic/Salomonowicz
Josef Salomonivic/Salomonowicz (Polish spelling) is another Holocaust media personality. He says he was sent to Auschwitz. According to his testimony, the Nazis killed all the children he knew except for him. Later, Nazi officers murdered his father by injecting phenol in his heart, then taunted 6-year-old Josef with the syringe.
In his biography, he says he was born 1938 and resided in the Lodz ghetto in Poland. He too is listed as having been “presumably murdered” — twice. There are multiple additional entries for a Josef Salomonowicz in the Lodz ghetto born around the same time, which may also be him.
The source cited? A census of Jews who lived in Lodz provided to the Yad Vashem by a group called “Organization of former residents of Lodz in Israel.”
Margit Buchhalter Feldman
Margit Feldman (née Buchhalter), another “Holocaust” survivor famous enough to be commemorated by name by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, passed away last month from the Coronavirus, as reported by NBC News.
Buchhalter held throughout her life that she was able to survive Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen just by lying to the Nazis about her age (18, instead of 15). Her parents were Joseph and Theresa Buchhalter.
She was born in Hungary and resided there during WWII. Her fate is registered as “murdered,” the source being a “list of murdered Jews from Yizkor books.”
Yitzhak Arad/Izak Rudnicki
Izak Rudnicki, born in Poland in 1926, is a “Holocaust” historian and survivor who changed his name to Arad after moving to Israel.
Despite having served as director of the Yad Vashem for 21 years (1972-1993), Arad/Rudnicki is listed in its files as having been murdered in the Holocaust. Once again, a random list of Jews in ghettoes is used as evidence.