Today, I was trying to make a comment on another blog-site, whose main topic was about a USA Rabbi, who the blogger was calling all the names under the sun, for he claimed abusing him as a child. It appears that this Rabbi has been arrested, been punished, paid the price and this blogger wants him blacklisted from ever acting as a Rabbi again. I found the words he used distatesful. I do know what he wrote will give the anti-sems all over ammunition to cat-call the posters fellow Jews with and thats not fair. Here's the message that I intended to post on his blog site [DANIELSCOUNTER] when I find it again.
We must accept that all faith's have Ministers who because of sexual lust transgress. This is a 'closet problem'- 'which should remain in the closet'. My interest is in fighting Holocaust Denial, I mention this because when I landed on this web-page I honestly thought 'It was an anti-sem slurring the Jewish Community world wide. Further reading told me I was wrong. Even so my advice is to kill this campaign, give it up, because the harm your doing to the Jewish communities reputation is incalculable. Your "stoning your own people. " Bob.
6 comments:
Abuse within religious circles is nothing new. I am not surprised at all. Hope you will continue reporting more on the blog.
Daniel
http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com
Bob
Herman and ROma story is not true. Roma told the AP reporter she was in a town nearby when she threw the apples at Herman over the fence, posing as a Christian child there. She did not say she was in the camps. Yes, we must honor and respect all Holocaust survivors and fight the deniers, yes, but in fact, Herman is giving ammunition to the deniers....watch him finally confess when the New York Times interviews him soon. They will. He is not a liar, or a hoaxer. He is just fibbing to make his story of love and life sound more Hollywoodish. He will be unmasked soon. Then again, maybe you are right. Only God knows. But keep an open mind. Don't believe everything you read in the papers about him and Roma. They are NOT telling the complete truth about the fence and the apples and the blind date in 1958. Do you know he also said God took him to Israel in 1950 where he met Roma when she was a nurse, but at the time they did not make the connection of their past and parted without falling in love. THAT had to wait until 1959. Do you believe that lie? he said it.
In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple.
He was a teenager in a death camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. ******SHE was a bit younger, living free in the village, her family posing as Christians.*****
Their eyes met through a barbed-wire fence and she wondered what she could do for this handsome young man.
She was carrying apples and decided to throw one over the fence. He caught it and ran away toward the barracks. And so it began.
Fairplay,
I understand your concern for "fair play" from your moniker and your comments.
I am sure we all would prefer to believe as you hope that Herman is "a survivor who cares about the truth, a person who cares about those who perished and is honourable in every respect ..."
However, the facts and the documentation in the Herman Rosenblat story are not supporting that hope.
It is not revisionism. It is a question of "Does the truth matter?" If Herman is not telling the truth and those with less access to the media are eclipsed by somebody who is not telling the truth ...
well that's a problem for all survivors, historians and anybody in the general public who genuinely wants to understand and learn.
It is my hope that those who do tell the truth are not diminished by those who do not.
Misremembering is not a crime. But if I wanted to be a standard bearer, the most publicized Holocaust couple in the world, I would check records to get my facts straight.
Herman and Roma Rosenblat have a responsiility to document what they say.
I currently have no proof that Roma Radzicki Rosenblat was ever near Buchenwald or Schlieben. It is not likely a matter of whether Roma's documentation is possible - simply when it will be accessible.
What we do know is that Herman was passing through Buchenwald between December 2, 1944 and December 8, 1944 on his way to Schlieben from the forced labor of the Bugaj works in Piotrkow. As horrible as the forced labor was for him in Piotrkow, Herman's account of Buchenwald is subject to valid criticism because Herman was only there for a few days - not the length or circumstances of his highly publicized story.
Once Herman left Buchenwald for Schlieben on December 8, 1944 - he had just five months to be in both Schlieben and Theresienstadt - where he was liberated with his three older brothers, then sent to the UK for education and aid.
Schlieben is where Herman repeatedly says his 7 months of apple/bread help from Roma occurred. Did Herman disremember that such an occurrence could never have been more than five months - only beginning in the winter of 1944, not the summer of 1944 as he describes? Was it even possible that Roma was in Schlieben between December 1944 and February of 1945 as he describes?
Herman's birth date is likely September 1929 as his US records state and Roma's is likely born in 1932. So when Roma was 9, and Herman was 12 - Herman was in the Piotrkow ghetto.
Did their chance encounter and apple/bread over the fence story actually happen in Piotrkow, and is misremembered as Schlieben?
Or is it fabricated?
Time will tell.
In the meantime, I can tell you that while Roma and Herman are said to have had a much publicized 50th wedding anniversary this year, they testified in a 1988 affadavit for a Florida real estate transaction that their marriage date was 1959.
Innocuous rush to their 50th wedding anniversary? Perhaps.
There are other zig zags in their story.
Sharon Sergeant
November 15, 2008 12:19 AM
faiirplay
send me your email address we can chat offline
Dan
sharpcool888@gmail.com
re Herman story
Death Knell of the West
By: Robert Spencer
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
How the conviction of two Australian pastors for vilifying Islam puts us all in danger.
Two Christian pastors in Australia have been found guilty of religious vilification of Muslims. The decision threatens us all.
One of the pastors, Daniel Scot, is Pakistani. He fled his native land seventeen years ago when he ran afoul of the notorious Section 295(c) of the Penal Code — which mandates death or life in prison for anyone who blasphemes “the sacred name of the holy Prophet Muhammad.” It’s a treacherously elastic statute that has been and is often used to snare Christians: cornered and made to state that they don’t believe Muhammad was a prophet, they then find themselves charged with blasphemy.
Scot went to Australia, only to run afoul of that nation’s new religious vilification laws. Last Friday, Judge Michael Higgins of The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found him guilty of vilifying Islam in a seminar hosted by his group, Catch the Fire Ministries. The judge noted that during the seminar, Scot stated that “the Quran promotes violence, killing and looting.” In light of Qur’anic passages such as 9:5, 2:191, 9:29, 47:4, 5:33 and many others, this cannot seriously be a matter of dispute. Muslims have pointed to verses in the Bible that they would have us believe are equivalent in violence and offensiveness, or have claimed that the great majority of Muslims don’t take such verses literally; but it takes a peculiarly strong resistance to reality not only to deny that such verses are there, but to charge one who pointed them out with religious vilification.
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