Abraham Bomba

by far the largest of all of them (Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial), and according to Rudolf Hoss, more than a third of the suspected murdered Jews were gassed there; three million died. In the Operation Reinhard camps which consisted of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, an approximated 1,526,500 Jews were killed by gassing and other means (Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial). Added to Rudolf Hoess’ claim that 3,000,000 were killed at Auschwitz, the numbers add up to roughly 4,526,500 Jews killed in the combined extermination camps. That number is much lower than the claimed six million. So while evidence such as pictures show that the suffering of those imprisoned in concentration camps was cruel, the numbers estimated
Abraham Bomba, a barber by trade, claims to have been forced to shave the heads of the women as they were taken to the gas chambers. He can even describe the gas chambers, with the concrete walls, steel doors and pipes (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Abraham Bomba said, “The people went in to the gas chamber from the one side…The door opened up… from the other side… [and] They took out the corpses. Some of them dead and some of them still alive.” In her autobiography, Corrie ten Boom details life at the famous women’s ‘extermination’ camp, Ravensbruck. She writes about the flea infestations and the humiliations forced upon the prisoners; and the eventual death of her sister due to typhus (Boom). Even the German testimonies taken during the trials held after the war pointed to the massacre of millions of people (Hoess). Based on all of the eye-witness accounts and survivor testimonies reported after World War II, the theory that the holocaust was a hoax concocted for Jewish profit has a less stable footing since many of the survivors and testimonies were taken from non-Jews, such as the testimonies of Rudilf Hoss and Corrie ten Boom. The claim that the German soldiers were tortured into confession may have been true in some cases, but it doesn’t discount the survival tales of the non-Jews. For example,
However, evidence also suggests that the events didn’t happen as…as the media led the United States to believe. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said in her ‘The Danger of a Single Story’, all stories have many different facets and sometimes people just don’t know them all. Knowing only one side of the story isn’t itself dangerous, but the danger starts when people begin to believe that the side of the story they know is the only side of the story (Talks). A lot of how people perceive an event is their interpretation of the evidence presented. After the war, the evidence presented to the public of the U.S. were horrifying pictures of twisted, starved, bodies, and the hopeless eyes of the survivors staring through barbed wire. Along with those pictures came the hasty testimonies taken from the German Commanders. But the most damning ‘evidence’ of all were the gruesome stories of lamp shades and soap made from human body parts. After that, the only way World War II could ever be seen was; the Germans were all the Bad Guys, and the Allied governments were the Good Guys. Unfortunately, many things, especially wars are not as black and white as that. Evidence has many ways to be interpreted and can be presented in contradictory ways. In the end, though we know that the events of the Holocaust did happen, the