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Extraordinary
Longevity of Holocaust survivors
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June 12, 1999
From:
Norman
Finkelstein
List Editor: Jim
Mott
Wednesday, September 27, 3000
AMID the distressing news in today's
Washington Post of yet another Holocaust hoaxer
unmasked, I wanted to pass on some good tidings. I've
spent the past few days reading the distribution plan
Judah Gribetz proposed for the Swiss monies. In
appendix C, "Demographics of 'Victim or Target' Groups,"
Gribetz cites a publication commissioned by the Jewish
Claims Conference: Ukeles Associates, Inc., Paper #2: An
Estimate of the Current Distribution of Victims of Nazi
Persecution (June 28, 2000). The remarkable passage
reads:
According to Ukeles, the
population of Nazi victims is declining more slowly
than previously believed. Ukeles posits that a fairly
substantial number of Jewish Nazi victims may live for
at least another 20 years and that, 30-35 years from
now, tens of thousands of Jewish Nazi victims are
likely to be alive. (p. C-13)
It now seems that "needy Holocaust victims"
weren't "dying everyday," as the Holocaust industry
solemnly intoned during the shakedown of the Swiss.
Indeed, the World Jewish Congress must -- reluctantly, no
doubt -- withhold a large chunk of the compensation
monies because Holocaust victims will yet be around for
many decades to come. But let's rejoice: L'Chaim! Truly
it is comforting to know that, 90 years after the end of
World War II and probably long after many subscribers to
this website (including yours truly) will be dead, tens
of thousands of Holocaust victims will still be alive . .
.
Best, Norman
G. Finkelstein
But let's
rejoice: L'Chaim! Truly it is comforting to know
that, 90 years after the end of World War II and
probably long after many subscribers to this
website (including yours truly) will be dead, tens
of thousands of Holocaust victims will still be
alive. . .
-- Norman Finkelstein