The Bitter Truth

The Bitter Truth

By: Paula R. Stern
January 2007

The bitter truth about what happened in Auschwitz cannot be denied, except by those so twisted, so filled with hatred, so bent on destruction. David Irving, who has already spent months in prison for his last Holocaust denials, has wasted no time in committing yet another atrocity. Adding to a long list of absurdities, Irving has now said, "At Auschwitz they did not have gas chambers, or at least there is no proof that I am satisfied with."

This is a man who loves attention, but clearly lacks any scholarly integrity to have earned the attention he so craves. This is a man filled with the need to deny even the most basic and obvious facts. I have been to Auschwitz, seen the ashes that still remain in the ovens. There is a sense of death there that fills the air, even on the brightest, sunniest days of summer.  The intent of the Nazi

I'll leave it to the historians to refute Irving's claims, if they care to bother. For me, Auschwitz is a personal thing, not merely a piece of history. I have seen the gas chambers of Auschwitz and walked into them. But unlike so many including my great grandmother and aunts, I had the luxury of knowing that I would walk out of them alive, though forever changed. I saw the marks of the victims on the walls of the gas chambers as they lost their lives.

The bitter truth is that the Holocaust happened and we can only wish that those who deny it may come to learn the evilness of their errors and suffer for their sins of denial. The good news, the good truth, is that they fight an impossible battle because you cannot deny with so many witnesses, so much proof, so much evidence that still lives on today.

May God bless the efforts of all those who remember, all those who catalog and record what was done.