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A7713 Controversy
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| Perjury is a punishable crime in America, carrying with it up to five years imprisonment and the disgrace that it brings upon the offender. | |
| In a recent California court case, Elie Wiesel, a self-styled eyewitness of the so-called Holocaust, stated under oath that while at Auschwitz, he was tattooed on his left arm with the number A-7713. | |
| Wiesel added that his father's tattoo number was A7712. But, according to a former prisoner at Auschwitz, Hungarian Jew Miklos Gruner, who was at the camp the same time claimed by Elie Wiesel, the number A7713 was assigned to a very different person, Gruner's friend, a Lazar Wiesel, not Elie Wiesel. | |
| The first names, Eli and Lazar, are diminutives of the Hebrew name Eleazar. | |
| Thus, Gruner contends, Elie Wiesel has committed a crass deception and imposture by pretending to be Gruner's friend and former fellow prisoner, Lazar Wiesel. | |
| First of all, let's take a close look at Elie Wiesel's left arm, and while we're at it, add his right arm as well. | |
| Evidently, no sign of an imprinted tattoo can be seen. | |
| Second, Gruner, who in his book, Identity Theft, sets out to prove that Elie Wiesel is a fraud, received a letter from the Auschwitz Museum in October of 2003, affirming that the number A7713, claimed by Elie Wiesel as his, was indeed, in fact, a sign to Gruner's friend, Lazar Wiesel, Recorded as being born on September 4th, 1913, not September 30th, | |
| 1928, the birth date of Elie Wiesel. | |
| The Auschwitz Museum letter also affirmed to Gruner that the number A7712, which Elie Wiesel attributes to his father Schlomo, was actually given to Abraham Wiesel, Lazar's older brother. | |
| In his book, Night, Elie Wiesel opens with a statement that, upon arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau in June of 1944, when Wiesel was only 15, he saw before him gigantic flames leaping up from a ditch into which Jewish babies were thrown. | |
| Gruner calls this an outright lie, asserting in his book, Identity Theft, I had never seen ditches with open fire where children were burning. | |
| This was later verified in 1988 by American Federal Court expert in execution technology, Fred Lukter, who reported that Auschwitz being built upon a swamp with a high water table made it impossible for bodies to be burned in ditches. | |
| In January 1945, the Auschwitz prisoners, which included Miklos Gruner and his friend Lazar Wiesel, were transferred to Buchenwald. | |
| Liberated by the Americans that spring, a photo was taken by a U.S. soldier that was later entitled, Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald. | |
| Elie Wiesel has referred to this photo as proof of his interment And has pointed to a man on the second row as being himself. | |
| Again, Gunner says no, noting that the man Wiesel claims to be himself was a man in his thirties and not a boy of sixteen, the age Elie Wiesel would have been at the time. | |
| Notice that the man has an aquiline nose and has full lips, while the teenage Wiesel's nose is obviously concave and his lips thin. | |
| The 30-year-old looking man also has a receding hairline, While the hairline of Wiesel when a teen is well up to the base of his forehead. | |
| In 1986, Miklos Gruner was invited to meet Elie Wiesel in Stockholm. | |
| The Swedish host informed him that this was the same person he knew in the camps under the name Lazar Wiesel. | |
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Gruner's Surprise
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| Upon meeting Elie Wiesel, Gruner said afterward, I was stunned to see a man I didn't recognize at all. | |
| He was certainly not my friend and fellow prisoner. | |
| Gruner also recalled that he was surprised that Wiesel could not speak Hungarian, but spoke English with a strong French accent, even though Elie Wiesel claims that he grew up in Siget, Hungary. | |