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Grant
Wild
has questsions about the gas van stories in the
Holocaust,

They admit the gas van photos are not of real gas vans?

HERE [link]
we have Mr Jerzy Halbersztadt of the University of
Warsaw and US Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC telling Mr Leon Zamosc, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and also a founding member of the Holocaust Museum that the photo of the Gas Van of Chelmo we have all seen is false.

  • “Despite of their captions, the photographs
    do not show the gas van used in the Chelmno
    death camp,” and
  • “In 1945 the prosecutors came to the
    conclusion that this van was not a gas van of
    Chelmno,” and
  • “The inspection of the van in Ostrowski
    factory, done on 13 November 13, 1945 by the
    judge J.Bronowski, did not confirm the
    existence of any elements of system of gassing
    of the van’s closed platform,” and
  • “Thus, there is no reliable

    graphic
    illustration of the gas vans used in
    Chelmno.”

However he does say: “I came across a version that this van was used for a disinfection of victims’ clothes, but there are no grounds for it.”
It is a pity he did not quote any source for that last statement.

Grant
Wild

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Original Publication: 2005-03-20
Digital Archive: Focal Point Publications
Accessed: June 4, 2026