Brother Nathanael - 10-18-2011 - Is Elie Wiesel A Fraud
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=== A7713 Controversy (04:49) ===

[00:00:01]  Perjury is a punishable crime in America, carrying with it up to five years imprisonment and the disgrace that it brings upon the offender.
[00:00:11]  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.
[00:00:30]  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.
[00:00:58]  The first names, Eli and Lazar, are diminutives of the Hebrew name Eleazar.
[00:01:05]  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.
[00:01:18]  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.
[00:01:26]  Evidently, no sign of an imprinted tattoo can be seen.
[00:01:31]  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,
[00:02:05]  1928, the birth date of Elie Wiesel.
[00:02:09]  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.
[00:02:25]  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.
[00:02:46]  Gruner calls this an outright lie, asserting in his book, Identity Theft, I had never seen ditches with open fire where children were burning.
[00:02:56]  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.
[00:03:16]  In January 1945, the Auschwitz prisoners, which included Miklos Gruner and his friend Lazar Wiesel, were transferred to Buchenwald.
[00:03:27]  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.
[00:03:38]  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.
[00:03:48]  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.
[00:04:02]  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.
[00:04:13]  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.
[00:04:24]  In 1986, Miklos Gruner was invited to meet Elie Wiesel in Stockholm.
[00:04:31]  The Swedish host informed him that this was the same person he knew in the camps under the name Lazar Wiesel.

=== Gruner's Surprise (00:29) ===

[00:04:40]  Upon meeting Elie Wiesel, Gruner said afterward, I was stunned to see a man I didn't recognize at all.
[00:04:48]  He was certainly not my friend and fellow prisoner.
[00:04:52]  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.