Fake Holocaust Survivors: Edward Malinowski

Continuing on with my series on the stories of so-called ‘Holocaust Survivors’ we have Edward Malinowski (nee Mersyk) of Detroit whose narrative runs as follows:

‘Malinowski, a board member of the museum, prefaces his story with a disclaimer: “What I tell you is true except one thing. My name’s not Malinowski.” He was born in May 1939, four months before the start of World War II, as Edward Mersyk — later picking up the surname Malinowski to mask his Jewish identity from the Nazi regime. Prior to the war, he lived with his mother, Stefania, and father, Marek, who were both successful lawyers. The family stayed in an apartment building in Warsaw, Poland. When the Nazis invaded the country in 1939 and, the following year, transfigured their area of town into the Warsaw Ghetto, an enclosed district that isolated the Jewish population, things changed drastically.

The ghetto was overcrowded and dangerous. Anyone caught crossing its surrounding wall, risked being killed by Nazi soldiers. It was also an area where, beginning in the summer of 1942, Nazis selected Jews for a holding area called Umshlagplatz, which was connected to a train station. Malinowski says the space was considered a “one-way ticket” to the Treblinka death camp.

One of Malinowki’s earliest and most traumatic memories took place in 1943. His maternal grandfather was watching the then 3-year-old when Nazi soldiers came to his family’s apartment and beat Malinowki’s grandfather with the end of a rifle. “I remember thinking, ‘How could somebody do this?’ ” The two were then taken to Umschlagplatz. When Malinowki’s father, working at a ghetto shop at the time, learned they were in danger, he devised a plan. He bribed an Umschlagplatz officer, telling them his son had typhus, a contagious disease, and was able to have him removed. Without enough money to save the both of them, within hours, Malinowski’s grandfather was killed Shortly after, Malinowski’s father decided they could no longer risk their lives in the ghetto. He says his father located a damaged apartment building outside the ghetto and offered to provide funds so the structure could be repaired in exchange for the opportunity for his family to stay there. The Polish apartment owner agreed. Yet, with striking features that made him easily identifiable as Jewish, Malinowski’s father felt the safety of his wife and young son was still in jeopardy. He decided to join an underground army that was formed against the Germans, and one night, two men who were believed to be from the army escorted him out of their home. Days later, Malinowski and his mother would learn that his father was deceived and led to the Gestapo to be killed. “That’s the last I know about my father.”

Malinowski’s mother’s sister escaped the Warsaw Ghetto with her 11-year-old daughter, and the two would later move into the apartment with them. His aunt, a well-off woman before the war, became the family’s saving grace in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising when RONA, a pro-Nazi unit of Russian collaborators, set up in their apartment building. Malinowski and his family were nearly killed, but because his aunt was proficient in German — she picked up the language from her daughter’s nanny — a man who Malinowski believes to be a German soldier thought they were civilians and ordered RONA to stop. Following the incident, RONA took the family to a nearby holding camp. They were then deported to a camp outside of Warsaw, which they escaped from.

Malinowski and his mother, aunt, and cousin spent the remainder of the war traveling between cities outside Warsaw. When the country was later liberated in January 1945, Malinowski says he remembers standing in the middle of the street in Żyrardów, Poland, wearing a pair of short pants — they were all he owned. Nearly 6 years old, he saw a large tank drive by. The war was over.’ (1)

Right so let me get this straight Malinowski was four months old before World War II started, survived the entire duration of the Warsaw ghetto – including the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April-May 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising August-October 1944 – as well as the entire selection program for the so-called ‘Holocaust’ that – according to its proponents - specifically targeted young children and others such as the elderly and infirm for extermination. That Malinowski somehow survived the entirety of this program as well as two major uprisings and the Second World War goes to suggest that either he is fibbing about his experiences or the standard ‘Holocaust’ narrative is not accurate.

You choose.

References

(1) http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/January-2019/A-Survivors-Story/