I get all pessimistic and irritable when I have a blog post due. Just saying.

To keep in the Holocaust topic, I found an article done by BBC News titled "Holocaust book yields new insights." The article begins by introducing David Irving, a man who was arrested in Austria for being a "Holocaust denier." He had "sued American historian Deborah Lipstadt for libel in Britain," lost his case, and was then deemed a denier of the Holocaust.

The article goes on introducing a variety of people who are fascinated by the idea that anyone could ever deny a historical event so tragic and solemn as the Holocaust. A woman by the name of Lyn Smith said, "That's something I just cannot understand - that people like Irving continue to deny, when there is so much evidence." The book this article is written about includes "excerpts of recordings from survivors and witnesses, tracing the Holocaust chronologically," and Mrs. Smith claims, "It is as near as you can possibly get to first-hand views of the Holocaust." The book includes a man named Jan Imich, who remembers the trips he had to make daily to a crematorium, where, upon arrival, had to witness the process of the taking of innocent bodies into a furnace and watched them burn to death. He goes on to add that one day, after leaving the crematorium he collapsed and began to cry. A man, whose job it was to kill people, approached him. However, instead of shooting Imich, he smiled and told the Kapo to let him go.

A woman named Zdenka Ehrlich used these words when recalling one of her experiences: “I was one of three hundred…just like a dying animal lying there on the floor - completely left to my own devices.”

Stanley Faull, another survivor of the Holocaust, was asked by his brother to describe his experience, and “Stanley started to tell him and his brother started to cry. Stanley was so upset he vowed never to tell anyone.” It is astonishing to many that with all the death and trauma that was the Holocaust, how could people who were there and went through it have possibly survived? Things were so indescribably horrific that many survivors did not share their experiences until decades after the events happened.

Truly, no person could ever make up such stories as this. So with such somber descriptions of what people went through, how can anyone NOT believe that the Holocaust happened? How can anyone deny such a thing? These insights can prove any non-believer wrong.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4456446.stm