Fake Holocaust Survivors: Les Held

‘Holocaust Survivor’ testimony ranges from the somewhat plausible to the outright ludicrous and our next ‘Holocaust Survivor’ named Les Held is very much in the latter camp (pun intended).

We learn from ‘Today’ that:

‘When Les Held was 6 years old, he and his family were sent to a concentration camp. But each time the Nazis tried to kill him, he cheated death.

He was sent to the gas chambers, but on that day, they ran out of gas.

When he was put in a line to be shot, an older man pushed Les down and took the bullet instead.’ (1)

Right… so Held was six and was sent to a death (not a concentration) camp – apparently he doesn’t specify which nor does he know that concentration camps and death camps are different things for unknown reasons but we may have our suspicions – and per the orthodox ‘Holocaust’ narrative Held was put in the line for the gas chamber only for the Germans to… well… magically ‘run out of gas’.

While unlikely this is possible although once against note that Held seems to think the Germans pumped gas in the gas chambers rather than the orthodox narrative where-in Zyklon B pellets were dropped in then dissolved to create the gas or carbon monoxide gas was pumped through fake shower heads from either a diesel or petrol captured Soviet tank or submarine engine.

So why am I stressing the alleged method of extermination?

Well, you see Held didn’t simply get re-gassed at some later point and although the obvious question of why not if selected once before hangs like a sword of Damocles over his entire ‘Holocaust Survivor’ testimony (i.e., it is almost certainly fake/made up) then it cannot have been a ‘pure’ death camp like Belzec, Treblinka or Sobibor but instead must have been one of the mixed work (i.e., concentration and death) camps like Auschwitz and Majdanek but the gas chamber set up that Held is describing is one that wasn’t present at any of the mixed work camps but only at the ‘pure death’ camps which used carbon monoxide not Zyklon B as their murderous gas of choice.

Thus, we can immediately see that Held is describing the wrong method of delivery of the wrong gas for the type of camp he had to have been in which means Held is either deliberately lying or his ‘testimony’ has been heavily influenced by post-war popular confusion about how the ‘Holocaust’ is claimed to have been conducted.

It doesn’t help Held’s credibility that ‘The Algemeiner’ claims that Held altered his claims:

‘Les was 6 years old when he and his family were sent to a Nazi concentration camp. During his incarceration, he was spared the gas chambers by a fluke: that on the day he was sent to his death, there was nobody operating the facility. In another instance, he was rescued from a firing squad, when a man pushed him out of the way and took the bullet instead.’ (2)

So, all of a sudden not only did Les avoid a firing squad because someone else pushed him down and took the bullet intended for him but now the Germans hadn’t ‘run out of gas’ but apparently had a staffing mix up and no one was around to push the ‘gas’ button so-to-speak.

Who knew the Germans had such scheduling issues at gas chambers…

How likely are all the strange ‘miraculous escapes’ Held claims to have had?

Not very!

References

(1) https://www.today.com/news/80-year-old-dad-who-survived-holocaust-gets-ultimate-surprise-t102666

(2) https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/09/11/today-co-host-surprises-holocaust-survivor-by-introducing-him-to-icon-tennis-player-at-us-open-video/