How true is this? This is a very trashy news paper, so i normally take what they write with a pitch of salt, but seeing this is a sensitive issue, i'm intrigued!
As for Mr Tadeusz, would you blame him?!
Looters have dug up mass graves belonging to Jewish WWII holocaust victims in the hunt for treasure, MailOnline can reveal.
The museum at the Sobibór Nazi death camp in south-east Poland, where up to 300,000 Jews were executed, found the sites have been disturbed by suspected gold hunters within the last two years.
I know the Mail does have a certain political agenda, but actually it has some interesting stories that are well written and verifiable. So calling it "trash" is a bit inaccurate. Oddly I was reading about Sobibor, Majdanek, Auschwitz and so on over the weekend. I think people are capable of anything, actually.
I'm only personally familiar with the plaque inside the Buchenwald Camp, not far from Weimar, Germany. On it, virtually NOTHING is written concerning the fact that a large percentage of those killed were Jews, merely, that they were "Communist freedom fighters", at war with the Faschist State of the Nazis!!
Merged: Looters dig up Holocaust victims' graves at Nazi death camp Sobibor in hunt for gold
Really not good to read this, I thought Poland had got past such sickening behaviour.
Graves of Holocaust victims at Nazi WWII death camp Sobibór plundered, it is claimed Sobibór museum staff in archaeological dig found mass graves disturbed U.S historian Jan Goss previously claimed graves of Treblinka victims were raided in WWII gold rush Shocking photos show Jewish tombstones in Hebrew used to build a toilet, patio and a cowshed in German occupied Poland
Full article here: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3295228/EXCLUSIVE-Jewish-Holocaust-victims-graves-dug-hunt-treasure-Shocking-photos-reveal-looters-disturb-mass-burial-sites-Poland-s-Sobib-r-Nazi-death-camp.html
There are thieves in every corner of the world, and totalitarian rulers work(ed) hard to weaken moral deterrent. I wonder what the anticipated new government is going to do about it, if anything.
A professor of history at one of the best universities in the world, yes.
I wonder what the anticipated new government is going to do about it, if anything.
My money would be on denying that there is any problem at all, then blaming any digging that has taken place on people who've nipped over the very nearby border with Belarus and quite possibly attempting to deport the journalist who has broken the story.
"A professor of history at one of the best universities in the world, yes."
Are you his agent or just promote him due to ethnic loyalty ? The man is shytstorian.
"My money would be on denying that there is any problem at all"
My money wouldn't be bet on anything. So far there's DM's article which is pretty much 3 lines long and "quote" some anonymous "museum source". The rest is promotion of shytstorian's "works". The article was by the way written by some "expat" from Poland (your buddy ?) I wouldn't be surprised If the guy was simply struggling due to wages for "native speakers" going down, so he came up with this nonsense to make a living.
Why do you even bother telling such utterly pointless lies? The Daily Mail article is actually more than two thousand seven hundred words long (2,742 to be exact).
Do you have any news in Polish about this "shocking event"
well it is not really the sort of thing that makes the news there is it? What with Jewish cemetaries covered over years ago, often to make parks. Given the history of the region, I do not see it as that shocking. They are just lumps of stone and I doubt if the Hebrew writing even means anything to the farmer in the article. I mean he obviously is not the sharpest tool in the box is he?
I doubt if the Hebrew writing even means anything to the farmer in the article.
So why is he charging money (or vodka) for people to look at the things? He know that's Yiddish and he knows exactly what those stones are, that's why he's asking for the price of a house for them
As for Mr Tadeusz, would you blame him?!
Yes, the man is utter scum and a disgrace to Poland.
"probably not no, not if they were Jewish graves. "
So you think that looting mass graves of victims of the so called Holocaust wouldn't make a news in Poland ? You people are so ignorant, no wonder it's so easy to brainwash you.
"So why is he charging money (or vodka) for people to look at the things? "
One could also wonder who (allegedly) pays him and what that peasant has to do with alleged looting of the mass graves.
"I am entitled to comment or have my own opinion."
And I am entitled to call your comments what it is -> nonsense. If any large scale looting of mass graves were discovered, this story would be on the headlines over here for days. Either nothing happened or someone found several holes of unknown origin.
that is fine G say what you like. Perhaps you are right. but I am not ignorant thank you..:) So do you think the Mail photos are a fake? or photoshopped?
G -what-ever- you-call-yourself, what are you in such a lather about? These things do happen you know.
'looting at Holocaust sites is a widely recognised issue amongst museum and memorial custodians'. quote from Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions By Caroline Sturdy Colls
Both. In some cases graves were looted many years ago and she talks about looting in the Netherlands so if it happens in Poland, it's just part of a sad and shameful pattern but that's life isn't it? You know the old saying, 'there is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it ill-behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.'
Both DM "article" and H. "person" that posted it here, make impression that there have been some looting going on right now or recently and that this event provoked the whole story including bringing up some tombstones madman. Nothing of that sort has happened. It's a non-story, a compilation on alleged "Polish antisemitism" based mainly on "works" of one psycho.
a) it's quite possible that graves were looted at some point. Looting happens in war time and the bodies of fallen soldiers are looted and robbed too so it's just a horrible aspect of human nature.
b) I agree that the story doesn't make it clear when the looting supposedly took place, how recent was it? c) I don't think the story is a complete fabrication as the museum authorities are quite at liberty to come out and make a statement to that effect ie there's been no looting that we know of. They haven't done that so far and the story has now broken worldwide and is being reported by many other newspapers so if it's all nonsense then I'd expect the museum to say so at some point quite soon.
