Fake Holocaust Survivors: Gad Partok
Covering another ‘Holocaust Survivor’ story we have that claimed by a Mizrahi jew from Tunisia named Gad Partok as related by the ‘Times of Israel’.
To wit:
‘Gad Partok was 10 years old in 1942 when Nazis stormed his street in the coastal Tunisian town of Nabeul. He saw them going door to door, hauling out his neighbors, shooting them and burning down their homes.
Like so many Jews who moved to Israel after the war, Partok believed Israel would be a place where he would finally be free from persecution.’ (1)
Further we are told that:
‘Partok said his family was only able to escape because his father, a fabric dealer who spoke Arabic, disguised the family’s Jewish identity. The family left Tunisia and moved to what would become Israel in 1947, a year before the country gained independence.’ (2)
The problem with this narrative is that there is no evidence I am aware of that the largely unknown and short-lived Einsatzkommando Tunis under Walter Rauff (the alleged creator of the famous ‘gas vans’/‘mobile gassing trucks’ in Eastern Europe in 1941/1942) actually went ‘door-to-door’, shooting jews and burning down their homes while they were present in Tunisia between early November 1942 and May 1943 as part of the German response to the Allied invasion of North Africa: ‘Operation Torch’. (3)
So, we only have Partok’s rather dubious word that this happened and even then we can see that Partok’s claim that his family on escaped ‘because his father spoke Arabic’ – which was (and is) normal for anyone living in North Africa jewish or otherwise – which simply doesn’t make sense and assumes that the Germans didn’t arrest anyone who spoke Arabic because they assumed they were Arabs not jews which is patently ludicrous.
Do you believe Partok?
I can’t say I do!
References
(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/is-it-true-is-it-so-holocaust-survivor-says-oct-7-revived-childhood-trauma/
(2) Ibid.
(3) https://northafricanjews-ww2.org.il/en/doc/57; https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/the-jews-of-algeria-morocco-and-tunisia.html