From the linked HC Blog:6. Contemporary Sonderkommando Handwritings
Communist Bias and Editing:
The index includes contemporary Sonderkommando handwritings found in the camps, but their authenticity and context are highly suspect. Many of these handwritings were published and edited by the former director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, who was known for his "communist bias" and for editing historical works without alerting readers to these changes (https://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot ... mando.html). Moreover, the basis for these handwritings being hidden and buried by the Sonderkommando is odd, given that claims of 'gassing' were already widely known through circulating letters and rumors.
The Contemporary Sonderkommando Handwritings on Mass Extermination in Auschwitz-Birkenau
The contemporary Sonderkommando handwritings were authored by members of the so called Jewish Sonderkommando engaged in the body removal and disposal at the extermination sites. The manuscripts were written during the operation of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in the ground near the crematoria and were only to be found after the liberation of the camp between February 1945 and 1980. They are a worthy and unique historical source since they provide impressions of the Jewish prisoners engaged in the mass murder machinery while it was still running or just dismantled. They were not filtered, directed and influenced by external persons (i.e. investigators, interviewers, historians) and post-liberation and post-war knowledge and circumstances. For these reasons, the Sonderkommando handwritings are also extremely powerful evidence on mass extermination in Auschwitz. Here, I present the manuscripts found and published so far with the most relevant quotes with regards to mass extermination.
Details concerning their history from discovery to publication and formal, linguistic, stylistic analysis of the manuscripts can be found in the publications Inmitten des grauenvollen Verbrechens (hereafter Inmitten; english: Amidst a nightmare of crime) by the Auschwitz State Museum and Des Voix Sous La Cendre by the Memorial de la Shoah.
Five of the eight manuscripts were published/edited by Bernard Mark, formerly director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. It turns out that Mark is a controversial figure as editor of historical works. According to Lucy Dawidowicz, "communist bias permeated Mark's own books on resistance in the ghettos of Warsaw and Bialystok...these works brought to light much important documentation from the Institute's archives, but their value was vitiated by the author's political distortion" (Dawidowicz, The Holocaust and the Historians, p. 101).
According to Michel Borwicz, in a 1948 publication of a diary from the Warsaw ghetto Mark did "remove certain sections and edit others, replaced some names with generalities...etc. without even alert the reader that kind of change" (Borwicz, Journaux publiés à titre posthume, in: Revue d'histoire de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, 1962, 45). Nicholas Chare speculates that Mark "may have disregarded [Sonderkommando Chaim Herman's letter]...because it was written in French and exhibits anxiety about how the actions of the Sonderkommando will be perceived retrospectively. Mark's decision to overlook Herman's account may provide an example of...discriminatory ways in which archival materials were employed to reinforce pre-existing ideals" (Chare, Auschwitz and Afterimages, p. 78).
You are a very unserious participant in this forum. Reasons are shared in the post immediately above yours and multiple reasons are discussed in the 16 pages of conversation you have chosen to ignore. Use one of those myriad reasons as a jumping off point for discussion.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 1:48 am
Can you provide any reason to believe that the manuscripts were not authentic or were fabricated?
Uh no they don't. But also not serious to ask somebody to read through 240 jumbled posts. Your reading comprehension missed the mark.AreYouSirius wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 2:28 amYou are a very unserious participant in this forum. Reasons are shared in the post immediately above yours and multiple reasons are discussed in the 16 pages of conversation you have chosen to ignore. Use one of those myriad reasons as a jumping off point for discussion.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 1:48 am
Can you provide any reason to believe that the manuscripts were not authentic or were fabricated?
6. Contemporary Sonderkommando Handwritings
Communist Bias and Editing:
The index includes contemporary Sonderkommando handwritings found in the camps, but their authenticity and context are highly suspect. Many of these handwritings were published and edited by the former director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, who was known for his "communist bias" and for editing historical works without alerting readers to these changes (https://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot ... mando.html). Moreover, the basis for these handwritings being hidden and buried by the Sonderkommando is odd, given that claims of 'gassing' were already widely known through circulating letters and rumors.
We’re exhausted by your flitty pilpul antics. You’re not engaging seriously, and it’s obvious to everyone here.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 3:10 amUh no they don't. But also not serious to ask somebody to read through 240 jumbled posts. Your reading comprehension missed the mark.AreYouSirius wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 2:28 amYou are a very unserious participant in this forum. Reasons are shared in the post immediately above yours and multiple reasons are discussed in the 16 pages of conversation you have chosen to ignore. Use one of those myriad reasons as a jumping off point for discussion.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 1:48 am
Can you provide any reason to believe that the manuscripts were not authentic or were fabricated?
There is no point debating with you. You do not actually know about or understand the arguments you are providing. This is ChatGPT output, pure and simple. Nothing you have posted has provided any sort of challenge to revisionists here, and more importantly, you're showing a lack of ability to stay on-topic or to keep things relevant, likely because you don't even know what questions are important to the broader debate at-present. This is because, as AreYouSirius points out, you're not a serious participant here. You have not been following along in the broader discussion; you have immediately jumped onto ChatGPT and are only plugging in the arguments you wish to 'debunk', without any effort at a sincere understanding or engagement of any kind.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 1:48 am It's one thing to be cautious about editorial bias, especially in postwar Eastern Bloc publications, but bias in how something is published doesn’t equal forgery. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando manuscripts were discovered buried near the crematoria starting in 1945, and their authenticity has been confirmed by forensic and historical investigations—not just by Bernard Mark.
While Mark’s editing practices were questionable, modern scholars have revisited the original manuscripts directly. Publications from the Auschwitz Museum and others present these texts transparently, separating original content from later edits.
You are missing the point when you try to disqualify these writings as "odd" due to the world already having knowledge about the gassings. After the event reports are not the same as firsthand, internal testimonies. The Sonderkommando were in a unique position to document the process, and they buried these writings knowing they probably wouldn't survive to tell the story themselves.
Demonstrating that a single author had editorial bias does not even provide evidence for fabrication, especially when other scholars have reported on the same manuscripts without those biases. It's a form of cherry picking which distracts from the bigger picture. I hope you aren't doing that on purpose to troll, but that at least explains why it's a flawed argument.
Most original manuscripts have been preserved in various archives, such as the Auschwitz State Museum and the Medical Military Museum in St. Petersburg. This preservation allows contemporary scholars to study the unaltered documents, providing opportunities for re-evaluation and more accurate interpretations. The fact that Bernard Mark's editorial practices were controversial really doesn't matter.
Can you provide any reason to believe that the manuscripts were not authentic or were fabricated? The CODOH thread that you linked to does not even attempt to provide evidence that the scrolls were forged or planted and it doesn't challenge the archaeological and forensic context of their discovery—i.e., buried in situ near the crematoria during or shortly after the events they describe.
To be abundantly clear, ConfusedJew, you are on "thin ice" here. You are not going to be able to continue posting AI-output exclusively in your engagement. You have already exposed your own true knowledge and familiarity with this topic, so when you post paragraphs of content that are clearly beyond your understanding and are also missing the "bigger picture" of the broader debate (making it so you cannot meaningfully contribute), it's going to be utterly transparent to everyone here that you're not posting genuine content. And that is not something we are inclined to tolerate much further from you.Here is what you DO get by being a member here:
Here is what you DO NOT get as a member here:
- A chance to 'expose deniers' and defend the 'Holocaust' narrative before the eyes of the world.
- The opportunity to monopolize the overall discussion aimed at limiting its productivity.
I completely understand the arguments that I'm making but you honestly don't seem to understand yours so let me break this down for you very simply.Callafangers wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 4:31 am
There is no point debating with you. You do not actually know about or understand the arguments you are providing. This is ChatGPT output, pure and simple. Nothing you have posted has provided any sort of challenge to revisionists here, and more importantly, you're showing a lack of ability to stay on-topic or to keep things relevant, likely because you don't even know what questions are important to the broader debate at-present. This is because, as AreYouSirius points out, you're not a serious participant here. You have not been following along in the broader discussion; you have immediately jumped onto ChatGPT and are only plugging in the arguments you wish to 'debunk', without any effort at a sincere understanding or engagement of any kind.
Their 'authenticity' remains an issue but let's assume for sake of argument they are real...ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 1:48 am It's one thing to be cautious about editorial bias, especially in postwar Eastern Bloc publications, but bias in how something is published doesn’t equal forgery. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando manuscripts were discovered buried near the crematoria starting in 1945, and their authenticity has been confirmed by forensic and historical investigations—not just by Bernard Mark.
The issue is the chain of custody, with Bernard Mark indisputably representing a serious break of integrity in that chain. Did he remove entire pages of even more ridiculous absurdities? Did he make less conspicuous changes, beyond those easily-identified as changed?ConfusedJew wrote:While Mark’s editing practices were questionable, modern scholars have revisited the original manuscripts directly. Publications from the Auschwitz Museum and others present these texts transparently, separating original content from later edits.
It seems it is you (ChatGPT) who missed the point -- if the motive for risking one's life to write these stories, what would the purpose of this be if these precise happenings were already widely believed and spoken of, in international reports and media? Your argument that "firsthand, internal testimonies" are more valuable (e.g. for proving things, for trial) speaks more to a motive of judicial or propaganda narrative-building in general (to be used against the Germans; i.e. an offensive move) than it does a desperate effort to expose an untold secret (e.g. whistleblower activity, or "preserving memory", not being forgotten, etc.). The former option seems more aligned with revisionist views.ConfusedJew wrote:You are missing the point when you try to disqualify these writings as "odd" due to the world already having knowledge about the gassings. After the event reports are not the same as firsthand, internal testimonies. The Sonderkommando were in a unique position to document the process, and they buried these writings knowing they probably wouldn't survive to tell the story themselves.
You're revealing your ignorance again (looks like ConfusedJew wrote this part, not ChatGPT). If the manuscripts were already serving as powerful evidence, why the need to edit them? And where were the Jews organizing massive protests against this historical director, for his actions? There were no protests. In fact, Mark kept his same position as director of the Institute until his death:ConfusedJew wrote:Demonstrating that a single author had editorial bias does not even provide evidence for fabrication, especially when other scholars have reported on the same manuscripts without those biases. It's a form of cherry picking which distracts from the bigger picture. I hope you aren't doing that on purpose to troll, but that at least explains why it's a flawed argument.
Not even a slap on the wrist for blatantly fudging 'Holocaust' documents. Just amazing."In 1949, Ber (Bernard) Mark, a veteran Jewish Communist, became director of ŻIH; he retained this post until his death in 1966. "
https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/228
The notion that these documents are meant to prove the 'gassing' of millions of people is, frankly, hilarious. A couple of opportunistic Jews handwriting stories which they had already heard floating around as rumor or within their communist network, and for which no verifiable/forensic evidence of any kind exists, is not credible documentation reflecting events having actually occurred.ConfusedJew wrote:Most original manuscripts have been preserved in various archives, such as the Auschwitz State Museum and the Medical Military Museum in St. Petersburg. This preservation allows contemporary scholars to study the unaltered documents, providing opportunities for re-evaluation and more accurate interpretations. The fact that Bernard Mark's editorial practices were controversial really doesn't matter.
Much like claims of 'whitewashed gas chambers' only appearing in the 1990s from problematic sources, what an absolute shock that the manuscript which is closest to the current orthodox narrative (fewer problems in technical detail) is the one 'discovered' most recently (Nadsari's). There remains no early or verifiable contemporary wartime documents that accurately reflect the current orthodox narrative, which was overwhelmingly constructed postwar.- Salmen Gradowski: Gradowski’s writings, including a letter and a diary, contain significant exaggerations and inconsistencies. His letter claims millions were exterminated at Auschwitz and cites mass murders of Czech and Slovakian Jews in 1944 that do not align with documented events or orthodox timelines. The diary barely mentions gas chambers, lacking detail for such a central horror, and includes an improbable reference to passing through Treblinka station during deportation, unlikely for his route in 1942. A separate manuscript is filled with sentimental, novelistic anecdotes rather than factual accounts, mentioning impossible scenarios (e.g., cremation furnaces hot for days without fuel, implausible packing densities of 12 per square meter in gas chambers, and incorrect physiological effects of gas).
- Chaim Herman: Herman’s letter, purportedly found in a bottle after the war with a convoluted discovery history via a Polish student to France, lacks substantive detail about his experiences, deferring to future literature in a way that implies prior knowledge of postwar narratives—an impossibility for a wartime document. It references an unverifiable transport of 200 Sonderkommando members to Majdanek for extermination, information he could not have known while isolated at Auschwitz. The refusal to provide direct testimony in a secret letter and the improbable awareness of later publications point to this being a postwar fabrication rather than a genuine wartime account.
- Salmen Lewental: Lewental’s manuscripts, found in 1961-62, are a mess of illegibility and contradictions. Claims like gassing 1,800 Jews on arrival in December 1942 are impossible since he wasn’t in the Sonderkommando until 1943. Descriptions of facilities mismatch orthodox accounts (single gas chamber vs. multiple), and exaggerated victim numbers (half a million Hungarian Jews burned) are refuted by air photos and deportation records. Postwar terms (“bunker”) and knowledge of resistance narratives he couldn’t have accessed during the war strongly suggest this is a fabricated or heavily edited postwar text.
- Leib Langfus: The manuscript attributed to Langfus, found in a dubious glass jar in 1970 amidst ruins, screams forgery. Key details about gassings are flat-out wrong: a single ceiling hatch in December 1942 doesn’t match any orthodox claims about Auschwitz facilities, and victims turning “blue” contradicts hydrogen cyanide’s effect (which causes a bright red-pink hue, an implausible error for someone who would have witnessed these corpses repeatedly). Absurdities like neatly stacked corpse piles and waiting huts despite alleged bunker capacity, plus postwar terminology (“bunker”), point to a text cobbled together long after the events, likely plagiarizing other dubious accounts like Miklos Nyiszli’s.
- Marcel Nadsari: Nadsari’s account, found in 1980 and tied to a survivor who never publicly testified, is suspiciously close to the polished orthodox narrative but still flawed. Impossible claims like 3,000 people in a 210 m² gas chamber (14 per square meter), self-immolating bodies without fuel, and executions in 6-7 minutes (ignoring gas evaporation and ventilation realities) undermine credibility. His inflated victim count (1.4 million) and lack of detail on key elements like Zyklon B devices suggest either exaggeration or reliance on later, externally shaped stories rather than firsthand observation.
Allegedly buried there, discovered by Jewish Communists under Soviet administration (or later), often as show trials occurred, as fake chimneys were being installed, as random people and especially Jewish communists were permitted to walk about the area freely, as figures were being inflated, as claims of extreme and bizarre torture were being invented, etc.; and then further edited/modified by another Jewish communist (Mark) who was not even punished for his actions as an historical director but, instead, allowed to continue them.ConfusedJew wrote:Can you provide any reason to believe that the manuscripts were not authentic or were fabricated? The CODOH thread that you linked to does not even attempt to provide evidence that the scrolls were forged or planted and it doesn't challenge the archaeological and forensic context of their discovery—i.e., buried in situ near the crematoria during or shortly after the events they describe.
There is no use in you making assertions about your intentions. You have completely shot your credibility, as shown here:ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 4:43 am
I completely understand the arguments that I'm making but you honestly don't seem to understand yours so let me break this down for you very simply.
Well then it's a good thing that logical argumentation doesn't require credibility so please just stick to the debates without making ad hominem attacks.Callafangers wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 6:07 am
There is no use in you making assertions about your intentions. You have completely shot your credibility, as shown here:
https://www.codohforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=339