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Vienna cache is one of largest Holocaust archives By Marjorie Backman The New York Times WHEN Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, or Jewish Community Vienna, decided to sell a vacant building in the summer of 2000, two employees were sent to look for any archival material that might have been left behind. David Irving comments: SEVEN YEARS ago? The year 2000?
And these are the people who have whined that the rest of the world is sitting on its Holocaust materials and not making them available to historians? I forgot: some exceptions apply.
As I wrote somewhere — in my prison memoirs I believe, because they and the Dokumentationsarchiv des Widerstands were the gentleman who secretly demanded my arrest back in 1989 — the name Israelitische Kultusgemeine Wien , the Israelite Cultural Community, reminds me inexorably of the Coalition for Human Dignity in Oregon: the mob-spitters run by a petty crook called Jonathan Mozzochi, one of Professor Deborah Lipstadt ‘s star witnesses until I pointed to his criminal record ; he was in
turn employed by, uh, you know whom , to spit on people, literally spit, who were arriving to hear me speak on the West Coast. ‘Most Holocaust scholarship has been written based on the documentary record created by the perpetrators of the Holocaust ,” says Shapiro — i.e. by the Nazis.
Now, how does that gel with the vicious criticism of me by Professor Richard “Skunky” Evans in the lucrative* expert evidence he provided for Lipstadt, for using the statistics given by the Nazi chief of police, Kurt Daluege , in an internal lecture on Jewish criminality in pre-Nazi Berlin?
Incidentally the card indices discovered within the Vienna apartment and “produced by the community’s emigration office” in 1938 and 1939 were perhaps the work of the Eichmann agency of that name set up in the city; more “Nazi records”, Evans would shriek. INCIDENTALLY too: “Also found in Vienna: the lists for 45 deportations, each naming about 1,000 Jews scheduled for transport in 1941 and 1942 to destinations like Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, Lodz and Minsk.
Some of these locations were known then as Jewish ghettos. Not as widely known, however, was the fact that after a certain time, they became transfer points to death camps.” Uh, I see. The above is a neat little circumlocution, the second sentence excusing the first: why would the lists be in the Jewish community’s files? Because they foolishly, or even lucratively, collaborated with the Nazis in drawing them up. Perhaps the restitution claims should be against the Kultusgemeinde .
Let’s have a little Real History here. * Evans was paid a quarter of a million dollar fee. In addition — although there is no suggestion that he anticipated this at the time he drew up his neutral evidence — Lipstadt’s co-defendant Penguin Books Ltd., part of the billion-dollar Pearson Group, signed a one million pound book contract with him after their trial victory which his unbiased expert evidence had so obviously procured.
What they found exceeded any historian’s dream: Stacked floor to ceiling in two rooms of one apartment sat more than 800 dusty boxes containing, among other things, about half a million pages of detailed records of the community during the Holocaust – archives not known to have survived. ‘Opening each box was extremely exciting,’ said Lothar Hölbling , the chief archivist and one of the discoverers. ‘Eight hundred excitements.’
Now, after seven years of quiet work reordering, preserving and microfilming the archives – a joint project of Jewish Community Vienna and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington – the documents are about to be officially unveiled with a presentation at the museum on Thursday, followed by an exhibition, opening on July 3, [2007] at the Jewish Museum Vienna. When combined with community records stretching