Fake Holocaust Survivors: Ben Stern

Another so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor’ named Ben Stern made news in 2019 in California at pro-mass immigration protests.

To quote ‘JWeekly’ of California his story is that:

‘Stern, who lives in Berkeley, gripped the microphone with two hands as he told of the horrors he witnessed. Stern survived multiple concentration camps and a deadly forced march from Buchenwald. His parents and eight siblings were all killed by the Nazis.

“I was picked out and put in a cattle car, and my mother and brother were put in a different cattle car. We never saw each other again,” he said. “It was so heartbreaking I didn’t have a chance to cry.”

Stern was liberated by the U.S. Army in 1945 and would later immigrate to the United States. He was filled with gratitude when he finally saw the Statue of Liberty.’ (1)

In a prior article ‘JWeekly’ added the following details to Stern’s backstory:

‘She was followed at the microphone by Stern, who grew up in a large Orthodox family in a pre-war Polish village, and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Nazi-ordered death march out of Buchenwald as the Allies approached in April 1945.’ (2)

Now just think about Stern’s claim here in that he was one of very few jews who are believed to have been ‘survivors’ of the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz – apparently there were others hence the ‘multiple concentration camps’ reference (nine in total as it turns out) – (3) and also magically survived the ‘death march’ from Auschwitz to Buchenwald as well.

We are told that ‘he knows’ his mother and siblings were ‘gassed’ because ‘they were put in a different cattle car’ and ‘he never saw them again’. In other words: they disappeared and he assumes – without any evidence other than their absence – that they were ‘gassed’ and didn’t either survive the war without knowing that he had too or died for any other possible reason.

He doesn’t sound like the most credible of ‘witnesses’ now does he?

After all he magically survived multiple death camps, a death march and a major ghetto liquidation and yet he cannot provide any evidence that any of his family actually ‘died’ in the ‘Holocaust’ and doesn’t seem to care – like any normal human being would – to try and find any.

Go figure.

References

(1) https://www.jweekly.com/2019/07/12/emotional-testimony-from-holocaust-survivor-at-s-f-ice-protest/

(2) https://www.jweekly.com/2017/08/27/95-holocaust-survivor-leads-jewish-protest-hate-berkeleys-streets/

(3) https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/02/05/ben-stern-berkeley-holocaust-survivor-near-normal-man-memoir