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"...boy's miraculous survival...the experience of his brother Romek in the underground...can leave one breathless." -- Dr. Aaron S. Gold, San Diego"I believe such testimonies from those who survived should be a part of American public curriculum." -- Paul H. Dunn, General Authority, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"It is an unnerving tale of ceaseless horror and quiet, unimaginable courage...." -- Arthur Salm, Book Editor, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Vincent Pr Pub Co (January 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972807705
ISBN-13: 978-0972807708
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
Average Customer Review:
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David Faber's BECAUSE OF ROMEK is one of a long line of fraudulent Holocaust survivor stories, but is remarkable for implausibilities and impossibilities so profound that it would be easy to mistake the book for satire. It would be laughable if Faber wasn't using the book to poison the minds of schoolchildren at speeches he charges a hefty fee for.The book takes us from the invasion of Poland to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. The title of the book refers to Romek, Faber's older brother, who Faber claims is a former member of the Polish Army working with the Polish resistance to sabotage supplies of deuterium, heavy water used in nuclear research coming to Nazi Germany from Norway. Any history of the Second World War will tell you that this never happened, and supposedly Romek is doing this from the tightly guarded Jewish ghetto in Tarnow, a city in the extreme south of Poland. Faber relates how Romek is tortured to death by the Gestapo while he watches, after which the Gestapo disposes of the witness by driving him back to the Tarnow ghetto and forgetting about him.This is in many ways the least of the bogus fables Faber laces his book with. He claims that after an escape he was taken in by Russian partisans working in the Polish forests. While the partisans only have a few tents and fewer weapons, one of them also has a store of girls clothing, complete with a blonde wig. These are common guerilla supplies? Faber claims that the partisans used these items to dress him up as a girl so he could sabotage the railroad, reasoning that a little girl messing with the tracks would draw less suspicion(!). Faber then states that the partisans were all killed by a forest fire set by the Nazis; he escaped by breaking the barrel of his rifle against a tree and using it as a snorkel.Just try it! Take a cold rolled steel rifle barrel and try your best to break it by banging it against a tree! It's impossible! Faber then claims that out of nowhere a woman drives up in a car (private automobiles were almost unknown in Poland even before the war). The woman drives with Faber through the forest fire area without once encountering a German roadblock or patrol, even though a major anti-insurgent operation has just taken place. With nothing better to do and apparently with all the gasoline she wants, she drives Faber, a boy in smoke-stained female clothing, over 100 miles through Poland without attracting suspicion and drops him off right in front of the Tarnow ghetto with no Nazi guards in sight.The improbabilities and impossibilities continue page after page, but reach their laughable summit when Faber comes to Auschwitz, where he goes through more miraculous escapes than Indiana Jones. Two utterly ridiculous stories stand out. At one point, Faber claims he survived the gas chambers because there was no more room and he was turned away(!). He was then approached by a member of the female orchestra who introduced herself as "Fania Fenelon". When Faber was fabricating this story, he obviously didn't bother to find out that French singer Fania Goldstein, famous from the film "Playing For Time", took up the stage name "Fenelon" AFTER the war.Then, after being dumped into the Kremas by a dump truck(!), Faber escapes a second time by hiding under a pile of clothing. This always fooled Nazi guards, right? He then just drifts into the Sonderkommando without ever being detected at the twice a day roll calls, where in the tried and true cliché of Holocaust stories, he's forced to work killing his fellow Jews, to the point where he's handing canisters of gas up to Adolf Eichmann, who he claims is personally doing the gassings and who introduces himself to Faber as "Colonel" Eichmann.History records that during the mass gassings, Eichmann was at his headquarters in Budapest; he rarely visited Auschwitz. Henryk Tauber, whose testimony is at the Auschwitz State Museum, states that none of the Sonderkommando were boys (Faber being about 16 years old at this time) and that all Sonderkommando were locked up out of sight during gassings; none of them engaged in it. Finally, the SS did not use military ranks. Eichmann would never have introduced himself as a "Colonel"; his rank was Obersturmbannfuhrer. Faber seems to have researched his fraud using the least reliable histories he could find.And on and on it goes. During the evacuation march from Auschwitz in January of 1945, Faber actually escapes from the Nazis and finds himself in a farmer's barn with several other boys milking a cow. Before morning, Faber then rejoins the column, unwittingly painting himself as stupid. Later in 1945, he claims he's at Dora digging underground tunnels. As Andre Sellier details in "A History Of The Dora Camp", Dora was a camp Jews were deliberately excluded from and where, in 1945, all tunnel work had been completed.These are only selected examples; the whole book can be played as a merry game called "Find The Fraud". Faber doesn't present a scrap of evidence, save pictures of his family, the firmest possible proof you can find that he had siblings. It's endorsed by a variety of people, none of them historians, and is co-written by James D. Kitchen, whose credentials are unknown; the name is possibly a nom de plume. The book has gone through several different editions as Faber tried to change his story in a futile attempt to fit historical reality. No reputable publisher would touch this book; after first publishing it samizdat, he found a shadowy company called Granite Hills Press to publish this edition.Is there a reason to read this book? Well, once you realize it's bogus it's actually funny, and if you have a malicious streak you can get a laugh from all the gullible people who actually believe this crap. Second, as I mentioned, Faber the Fraudster actually goes to schools and churches and gives speeches about the book, twisting the minds of impressionable children right under the eyes of some very negligent teachers and parents.Outraged? You should be.
First off - I am NOT a holocaust denier at all -- I completely believe 100% that it all happened, and that horrific and inhuman acts were inflicted on millions during that time, with most dying.I've read a Lot of WW2 era books - non fiction accounts of the times, and one can easily do some simple investigating on Google and other internet resources to fact check this........ too many times while reading this book, something in the story didn't seem right to me, compared to what I had previously read and learned. While I presume that Mr. Faber did indeed suffer the loss of his family and spent some time in concentration camps - I cannot believe that this story wasn't embellished considerably to make for more exciting and interesting reading. It seems to be a collection of every sort of experience that one could possibly have had during the Holocaust, all rolled into one story.Just a few of the things that didn't seem right -- why wouldn't the German soldiers searching apartments know to look under sofas and beds? Perhaps Mr. Faber was out of the apt. at the time of his families slaughter and just wanted to put himself at the scene to make it more poignant? I can 'almost' accept this one, or at least understand it.Mr. Faber was a small 13-4 yr old, with no military training or country life skills, who yet managed to escape from Numerous homes, ghetto apts, camps and a death march - and then is able to re-enter these same places without anyone noticing his absences.He gets taken under the wing of a partisan group he stumbles upon after one of his escapes, and in a few days he is a key part of their plans to derail German trains?! He survives a forest fire by breaking a gun in half (this is Not something that would be accomplished by just one blow against a tree!) and uses it as a snorkel, as the fire passes by him - and he just happened to have heard of such a way to survive a fire? A mysterious 'Lola' conviently finds him afterwards and with no questions asked, she buys him new clothes and drives him very far back to the ghetto his family was in. Cars and fuel were in very short supply back then, making this really unlikely.The German authorities believe that he is an 18 yr old adult metalworker, when he applies for his papers as a scrawny 14 year old? His brother, Romek creates some sort of cooked vegetable paste that magically transforms his mother from a sick, wrinkly older woman into a beautiful younger woman - ummmmm, yeah?In the various camps, there are encounters with a veritable who's who of infamously evil top SS men -- Dr. Mengele sends him to the gas chambers (which he avoids BOTH times) and many others yell at, torture, or punish him. He also name drops musician Fania Fenelon (a name she adopted After the war) as one of the many who tell him they know HE is going to survive the camps. The story that seems most likely to be fabricated is the one about his second time to the gas chambers, where he just hides under some clothes. The Germans were obsessive in counting prisoners and they all had their numbers tattooed on their arms - so his easy slip into the job the Sonderkommando after being found was extremely unlikely. This was a unit of grown Jewish MEN, who were kept separate from other prisoners, fed a bit better, and performed their jobs of processing the dead from the gas chambers into the ovens - These prisoners would seldom last 3 mo. before being killed off and replaced with a new squad. Of course, he just walks away easily from that squad after briefly pretending to belong. He was also very unlikely to meet Eichmann - who didn't personally visit the camp often. He was in charge of making the transports work as smoothly as possible - office work largely, and wouldn't have been the person administering the ZyklonB, handed to him from a prisoner's hands - Mr. Faber's hands. That job belonged to the SS and an SS Doctor. Lastly, after liberation - Mr. Faber is so weak he can barely crawl a few feet. Red Cross nurses pick him up in their car and he goes to the hospital. Because hospital staff are only feeding him small amounts (large amounts fed to the newly freed prisoners Killed many of them inadvertently) - he breaks out of the hospital in this very weakened state, grabs clothes and a gun and walks to a nearby house and steals food and gold from a German family, then returns to the hospital with his loot!?!If you want compelling reading that is an accurate account of life in camps - there are plenty of reputable sources out there. I highly recommend If This is a Man by Primo Levi as a start point.I can understand how anyone with minimal knowledge of the details of the Holocaust would get taken in by this account of Mr. Faber's. As I said, he may have suffered horribly in his own experiences, but he does a disservice to himself and his family to have embellished this story. Embellishing this story makes things easier for the Holocaust deniers, because they can point to the inaccuracies and just then dismiss the Holocaust as false. Readers should know that there are Many editions of this book out there - all with changes made to make the story fit into history better after inaccuracies were noted. One could certainly understand being unable to recall a specific date, but there is just too much wrong here to wholly believe this tale.
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