Fake Holocaust Survivors: Erik Brik

Continuing on with my series of articles looking at the stories of so-called ‘Holocaust Survivors’; we have the narrative of a jew named Erik Brik.

According to Aish:

‘One of the ghetto’s factories produced uniforms for the German army; it was another way the Jews of the city used their skills as artisans to remain useful to the Nazis for as long as possible. In a carefully worked out plan, Zvi bribed the wagon driver and guards collecting a batch of uniforms from the ghetto and organized his family’s escape, placing Erik into one of the sacks, with the guard allowing his mother to walk alongside the wagon.

“They put me in a bag and told me not to make a sound,” Erik said remembering the tense journey. “If it was cold or hot or whatever, I was not to make a sound.” The wagon contained valuable goods for the Nazi war effort, and the sack containing 8-year-old Erik was placed on top so that he’d be able to breathe.

A few kilometers outside the ghetto, the wagon stopped and all of the sacks were unloaded into a barn. They had arrived at the farm of a friend of Jaroslavas Rakevičius, a friend of Erik’s father before the war.

Erik had spent his childhood in the ghetto and had never spent time in the countryside. “When they opened the sack,” he recalled, “I opened my eyes and saw a cow. I had never seen one before.”

Erik and his mother stayed at the farm, just outside Kovno for three days before Rakevičius and his sons, who had also helped 20 other Jewish families to escape, sensing the Nazis were looking for Jews in hiding, took them to their own farm in the village of Keidžiai, around 100 kilometers away from Kovno. He remained hidden there with his mother, moving between two bunkers built under the family’s home and yard, hoping the war would end soon.

“Our biggest fear was being given away and someone informing on us,” Erik said. “If anyone would tell the authorities then not only we would be killed, but also the family that was looking after us.”’ (1)

Right so Erik’s father bribed both the Lithuanian wagon driver and the guard – but apparently had no money to bribe them with as the Germans had already confiscated that and likely didn’t have any goods to offer (the only possibility I can think of is him offering them sex with Erik’s mother) – and then put his son in a sack meant for uniforms (and no one noticed the texture and weight difference let alone the completely different profile of a child in a sack compared to clothing in a sack) and then managed to get Erik’s mother’s permission to just walk out of the Kovno ghetto with the wagon driver and the guard.

The Lithuanians then not only got them out the ghetto but then unloaded them with all the sacks at the farm of his father’s pre-war Lithuanian friend in rather convenient fashion. This obviously begs the question as to how Erik’s father knew that the farm was either a stop-off point on the way or could have bribed the Lithuanian wagon driver and guard to go to that particular farm (and they knew exactly where to go).

Then we are told that not only that Erik escaped in a sack but so did his siblings, which forces us to wonder just how straight up incompetent the Kovno ghetto’s administration and security was. We are also told that the farm they were dropped off at wasn’t ‘actually’ owned by Erik’s father’s pre-war friend Jaroslavas Rakevičius but rather he owned one in another village named Keidžiai some 100 kilometers from Kovno and there were 20 other jewish families milling around there or in the near vicinity, while Rakevičius had even thoughtfully built two bunkers under his home to accommodate needy jews.

Could Erik Brik get any more ridiculous without getting into the realms of pure fantasy (such as the pedal-powered brain-bashing machines and surviving in an exposed hole in the ground hunting in the forest for three years)?

Not really.

References

(1) https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Smuggled-Out-of-Kovno-Ghetto-in-a-Sack.html