Fake Holocaust Survivors: Roger Loria

Continuing on with my series of articles examining the stories of so-called ‘Holocaust Stories’; we have Roger Loria who has been warbling about his experiences to the ‘Jewish Leadership Council’ at Virginia Commonwealth University.

To wit:

‘Loria — born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1940 — was three-weeks-old when the Nazis invaded his hometown. As Belgium’s flatlands are amenable to military travel, the Nazis employed them as a route to the rest of Europe. Jews in these territories were subjugated and eventually deported to concentration camps across Europe.

After Loria and his mother fled from Belgium to France, they were caught and interned at various concentration camps under Nazi control.

“5,334 people went to France ‘Libre’. Only 317 survived,” Loria said. “My mother and I are two of the 317.”

After escaping from a concentration camp in Southern France, Loria and his mother traversed the country on foot to the Swiss border with the help of a smuggler in a group with three others. Loria was two-years-old at the time — the eldest of two children in their party — and was subsequently charged with the supervision of the younger child.

“There was another baby … I had to ensure that if he cried, I put a sugar cube in his mouth, so they wouldn’t hear him scream,” Loria said. “So the Germans wouldn’t pick us up.”

They remained in Switzerland until the end of the war, when they were repatriated as Belgian citizens. Loria and his mother eventually immigrated to Israel with a group of children from a Jewish orphanage in Belgium. He remained there, serving in the Israeli military, until he sought to pursue his education overseas.’ (1)

Now there is a very obvious problem with Loria’s narrative here is that he was a baby/young toddler and his mother and he supposedly not only escaped from the concentration camp system – predictably Loria doesn’t explain how a young mother with a baby managed to achieve this feat while other abled-bodied jews did not – but apparently manged to find smugglers willing to take them across the Swiss border. In addition to a clandestine sugar cube – in heavily-rationed Europe in 1942 – to silence another baby in the smuggling party.

Does that sound remotely plausible to you?

Not really.

It sounds like a heavily embellished story made up by Loria who was after all two at the time that these events happened.

How much do you remember from when you were two?

Not much if anything I’d wager.

References

(1) http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2019/01/jlc-hosts-holocaust-survivor-roger-loria