Comments on: Monuments of Soap

By: whodareswings

whodareswings — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:17:23 +0000

Vasile Grossman and ilya Ehrenburg’s BLACK BOOK exists. I believe it was even endorsed by Elenor Roosevelt.
Grossman was put on trial by Stalin and executed during the purges. He toured the USA during the war, as a representative of the Soviet Anti-Fascist Writer’s Group, with a bar of soap he claimed was made from Jewish fat.
http://tinyurl.com/ycobhpg
Ehrenburg and Grossman’s BLACK BOOK is anti-fascist propaganda like the THE BROWN BOOK by Arthur Koestler and Willi Muntzenburg. There is usually a kernel of truth in propaganda so some of the atrocities written up in these books may be verifiable.

By: Kindly Old Book Collector

Kindly Old Book Collector — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:49:13 +0000

I have never heard of it.

Sometimes I think “Holocaust Denial” is just a trick to get people who don’t care about “The Holocaust” to read more books written by propaganda artists, all with the same theme, “Nobody suffered like the Jews”.

By: Bantam

Bantam — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:10:22 +0000

@ Kindly Old Book Collector,

I’m desperately looking for a link to Grossman & Ehrenburg’s “Black Book”.
Would you enlighten me ?

Thank you.

By: Kindly Old Book Collector

Kindly Old Book Collector — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:17:39 +0000

Apparently, the Holocaust Museum in Israel debunked the soap story in 1990.

Eleven years later -

“Gaby Wening reports in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (Dec 28, 2001) on 75-year-old film-maker Lupu Gurman:
Gurman is now distributing copies of his haunting documentary, Monuments of Soap, to all the branches of the Los Angeles Public Library. The film is a tour through the remnants of post-Holocaust European graveyards, examining the monuments that were erected to mark the burial of the soap that was made of Jewish flesh.”