{"id":249456,"date":"2016-06-13T04:28:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T04:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/another-holocaust-survivor-hoax-exposed\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:47:44","slug":"another-holocaust-survivor-hoax-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/another-holocaust-survivor-hoax-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Another \u201cHolocaust Survivor\u201d Hoax Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Yet another famous \u201cHolocaust survivor\u201d in the US, 90-year-old Joseph Hirt, who has spent fifteen years lecturing schools about his \u201cescape from Auschwitz,\u201d has been shown to be a fantasist liar who invented everything.<\/p>\n<p>Hirt\u2019s career in lying and making up \u201cholocaust\u201d stories goes to 2006, when he was the subject of an article in Philadelphia\u2019s <em>Inquirer<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The article, titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2006-08-17\/news\/25397157_1_holocaust-survivor-concentration-camp-racial-hatred\" target=\"_blank\">Facing the ghosts of the Holocaust<\/a>,\u201d and filed under that paper\u2019s \u201cracial hatred\u201d section, quotes Hirt as saying that had grown up in a Jewish family in Poland, was sent to Auschwitz, given prisoner number tattoo I94517, but \u201cspared the gas chamber because he identified himself as a nurse and was pressed into service by a doctor who was himself a camp inmate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1045\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/16\/06\/auswitch-lies-joseph-hirt1.jpg\" width=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hirt kept on peddling this story for years, eventually becoming a firm favorite on the \u201cholocaust survivor circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, in December 2014,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2014\/12\/auschwitz_survivor_will_share.html\" target=\"_blank\"> he told the Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable<\/a> that he had escaped Auschwitz after eight months by crawling under an electric fence; and that upon his liberation he weighed a mere 60 pounds\u2014\u201da skeleton with skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hirt also started producing a photograph of an emaciated man lying on stretcher, claiming it was himself. This picture became one of his stock props in his \u201clectures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"2301\" src=\"http:\/\/redice.tv\/a\/i\/c\/16\/06\/auswitch-lies-joseph-hirt2.jpg\" width=\"1062\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He also said he came \u201cface to face with the so-called Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele, while at Auschwitz,\u201d and that he had also \u201cattended the Olympics&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/another-holocaust-survivor-hoax-exposed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another famous \u201cHolocaust survivor\u201d in the US, 90-year-old Joseph Hirt, who has spent fifteen years lecturing schools about his \u201cescape from Auschwitz,\u201d has been shown to be a fantasist liar who invented everything. Hirt\u2019s career in lying and making up \u201cholocaust\u201d stories goes to 2006, when he was the subject of an article in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}