Menachem Rosensaft married the daughter of Ada Bimko, (now Hadassah Rozenzaft), the former Auschwitz inmate whose perjured evidence was used to hang a number of defendants in postwar trials.* In the September 1945 Belsen Trial in the British Zone of Germany she swore that she had personally seen the "gas cylinders" and pipes which had been used to deliver poison gas into the gas chambers at Auschwitz. (Alas, as she should have known, the "gas" in question was a crystalline substance, Zyklon B, delivered in small tins...).

Needless to say the highly paid "neutral" witnesses used by Prof Deborah Lipstadt in her defence of the Irving libel action in 2000 cut these awkward parts out of Ada Bimko's testimony.

No doubt Lipstadt and Bimko both sleep easy nonetheless.

* Raymond Phillips (ed.), Trial of Josef Kramer and Forty-Four Others (The Belsen Trial) (London, 1947), pages 66 et seq.