Fake Holocaust Survivors: Margit Meissner

Continuing on with my series on so-called ‘Holocaust Survivors’ we have Margit Meissner (nee Morawetz).

To quote the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum about her story:

‘Margit’s father died of an embolism in 1932, and from the age of ten, Margit was raised by her mother with the help of a governess. By 1934 Margit and her friends began to notice a troubling rise in antisemitism in western and central Europe. In 1938, nearby Austria had submitted to Nazi rule, and violence against Jews was on the rise. Margit’s mother decided that it would be safer for Margit to leave Prague, so she was sent to secondary school in Paris, France where she studied dressmaking. A year later, Margit’s mother joined her there. It was not long, however, before the threat that they had fled from in Prague had caught up with them.

In May of 1940, Margit’s mother received an order from the French police, ordering her to report to an assembly point in the south. Margit was left to figure out a way to get both herself and her mother out of France. With no other way to leave the city, Margit bought a bicycle and, following the throngs of people fleeing Paris, rode almost 20 miles to a school in the town of Etampes, where other refugees were congregating. There, she learned that her mother had been sent to Camp de Gurs, a detention facility near the Spanish border. Margit climbed back on her bicycle and set off to find her mother. Her timing was lucky; shortly after Margit left the school, the building was blown up by German forces. Eventually, Margit was able to get a train ticket south to Salies-de-Bearn, a town near Gurs where some friends were staying.

In June, 1940, France surrendered to Germany. In the confusion that ensued over the following weeks, Margit’s mother was able to leave Camp de Gurs and join Margit in Salies-de-Bearn. Together, they snuck out of occupied France to Marseilles. From Marseilles, they fled, via Spain and Portugal, to the United States, and settled with Margit’s brother, Felix, in New York.’ (1)

Now the obvious problem with this story is that Margit Meissner was never ever interned in a camp by the German authorities, but rather her mother was interned by the French authorities as an enemy alien at the start of the war. She then went to live near the camp where her mother was interned in the south of France and fled the country immediately after it was conquered by the Third Reich. Although German forces never got anywhere near Meissner and her mother in 1940. They then proceeded to flee via Marseilles to Spain and Portugal and then the United States.

In essence Meissner and her family were never in an area under German rule and left Europe in mid-1940, which was a whole year and a half before – according to the orthodox narrative – the so-called ‘Holocaust’ was dreamed up in January 1942.

That isn’t the impression she gives however as Melinda Neely – a teacher from West Virginia – relates:

‘“I really loved listening to Margit, she was incredible. She is 96 years old and is so vibrant and sassy,” Neely said. “It was hard for me to think about the fact that this woman had lived through that time period as she was telling us her story. She was 16 when the Nazi’s came in to France. Her mother was deported and as her mother was leaving, she handed her a stack of money and she told her, ‘it’s up to you to get us out now.’ After this wild journey, she and her mother were eventually able to get out. It really was a phenomenal story.”’ (2)

Now that sounds like Meissner is claiming that the Third Reich deported her mother to Camp de Gurs not the French government before the Germans invaded. This is confirmed by the – likely made-up - anecdote that her mother ‘handed her a stack of money’ and she told her ‘it’s up to you to get us out now.’ This necessarily implies that Meissner claimed to Neely that she was running away from the evil Germans who were deporting her mother and that is how she ‘escaped the Holocaust’. Except of course she wasn’t running away from anything as her mother was being deported by the French government – as is shown by the fact that Meissner wasn’t deported with her – and the so-called ‘Holocaust’ wouldn’t even be planned for another year and a half.

Anyone else think Margit Meissner is a fake and a fraud who is deliberately misrepresenting herself to others?

References

(1) https://www.ushmm.org/remember/office-of-survivor-affairs/survivor-volunteer/margit-meissner

(2) http://www.journal-news.net/news/local-news/2018/08/local-educator-trained-on-how-to-teach-the-holocaust/