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The day a Holocaust survivor got revenge on his tormentor
nypost.com ^ | november 9, 2014 | martin greenfield

Posted on 11/09/2014 10:51:41 AM PST by lowbridge

He survived the savagery of the Holocaust, made it to America with barely a penny and became a world-famous tailor in Brooklyn, dressing celebrities and presidents. In his new memoir, “Measure of a Man,” Martin Greenfield tells the story of his extraordinary life.

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I whipped my head around toward the door. A gorgeous, smartly dressed blond woman holding a baby stood silhouetted in the door frame. It was the mayor of Weimar’s wife.

“I . . . I found your rabbits!” I stammered with a cheerful nervousness. “They’re alive and safe!”

“Why in the hell are you stealing my rabbits’ food?” barked the woman. “Animals!” I stood silent and stared at the floor.

“I’m reporting this immediately!” she said, stomping away. My heart pounded in my emaciated chest. A few minutes later, an SS soldier ordered me to come out of the cellar. I knew what was coming, and the knowing made it all the worse.

“Down on the ground, you dog! Fast!” yelled the German. He gripped his baton and bludgeoned my back. I do not know whether the mayor’s wife watched the beating. Given her cruelty, why would she want to miss it? On the hike back to Buchenwald, I replayed the scene over and over in my mind.

How could a woman carrying her own child find a walking skeleton saving her pets and have him beaten for nibbling on rotten animal food? I thought.

In that moment, my numbness to death melted. In its place rose an alien blood lust, a hunger for vengeance unlike any I had ever known. The surge of adrenaline and rush of rage felt good inside my withered frame.

Then and there I made a vow to myself: If I survived Buchenwald, I would return and kill the mayor’s wife.

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To: vladimir998
...no one in the story was murdered by a woman. If the “mommy” had murdered the Jewish boy in question the story would have ended after he found the rabbits. This just proves how off base you are.

The "mommy" had an SS guard beat a death camp prisoner with a truncheon because she believed his life was worth less than the rotten food she was feeding her rabbits. That's attempted murder - physical and psychological - period.

The bitch deserved to die, and your claims to morality are revolting. You are defending stark, brazen evil and I reject your worldview utterly, with disgust. And I see people like you as a plague upon humanity, sucking up to murderers and defending filth. No wonder you curse me so freely - demons scream in the light. Get spiritual help before its too late - you've already swapped light for darkness, and darkness for light. There's not much time left after that.

21 posted on 11/09/2014 2:06:26 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

“The “mommy” had an SS guard beat a death camp prisoner with a truncheon because she believed his life was worth less than the rotten food she was feeding her rabbits.”

Nope. The text tells us why she had the boy beaten - for stealing the rabbit food. If she thought the boy’s life was worth less than the rabbit food then maybe she would have killed him. And to be absolutely correct, there’s nothing in the text that says she even had him beaten. She said she was going to report the boy for stealing. She never said anything about beating the boy.

“That’s attempted murder - physical and psychological - period.”

Except that she didn’t do it. The Nazis were knew what it was to murder people. There was no attempt to murder the boy. No shooting, no stabbing, no broken bones, no serious injury requiring him to be sent to the hospital in Buchenwald camp.

“The bitch deserved to die, and your claims to morality are revolting.”

Murder is revolting - and you’re the one advocating it here.

“You are defending stark, brazen evil and I reject your worldview utterly, with disgust.”

I defended no evil at all - that’s why I oppose you because your view is evil.

“And I see people like you as a plague upon humanity, sucking up to murderers and defending filth.”

Well, why not just murder us to then? Maybe you can round up all of us “politically correct” people who don’t believe in machine gunning women and children and put us in camps. You can make us wear distinctive uniforms, tattoo our arms...

“No wonder you curse me so freely - demons scream in the light.”

Curse you. I merely told the truth. Your view can only be insane or idiotic. There is no middle ground. There is no reasonableness to what you’re saying.

“Get spiritual help before its too late - you’ve already swapped light for darkness, and darkness for light.”

Said the man who wishes a 16 year old Jewish boy murdered a woman and her child.

“There’s not much time left after that.”

No amount of time would excuse the murder who wish for. Get help. You need it.


22 posted on 11/09/2014 2:54:08 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

I saw two or three typos in my post. The only one that really matters is this:

“Curse you. I merely told the truth.”

Should be

Curse you? I merely told the truth.


23 posted on 11/09/2014 2:56:53 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

I made a mistake -you don’t need help, you need prayers.

You’re gone.


24 posted on 11/09/2014 3:11:26 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

“I made a mistake -you don’t need help, you need prayers.”

I’ll be happy to have the prayers. Pray for yourself because you wish a 16 year old teenager murdered a woman and her small child.

“You’re gone.”

No, I’m right here and there’s nothing you can do about it.


25 posted on 11/09/2014 3:36:22 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: Norm Lenhart

You didn’t read the article.


26 posted on 11/09/2014 3:53:10 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: vladimir998
...you wish a 16 year old teenager murdered a woman and her small child... I’m right here and there’s nothing you can do about it.

a·gent pro·vo·ca·teur
ˌäZHän(t) prəˌvôkəˈtər
noun
a person who induces others to break the law so that they can be convicted.

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27 posted on 11/09/2014 3:57:23 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I read enough of it that the point about handing the kid to the girls still stands. And whether it was this POS or another POS that went full emo doesn’t really matter. ALL of them in power were responsible.


28 posted on 11/09/2014 4:00:19 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Talisker

arm·chair cow·boy

noun
a person who stupidly wishes a 16 year old boy murdered a woman and child


29 posted on 11/09/2014 4:35:23 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
a person who stupidly wishes a 16 year old boy murdered a woman and child

Not stupidly - intelligently. And not the child, that's your perverted fantasy. Nor would I think of calling a teenager who survived a Nazi death camp a boy. Nor would I call a Nazi bitch who demanded an easily potentially lethal armed attack against a starving prisoner by a member of a group of known homicidal maniacs a woman, nor a mother, nor would I call that anything less than attempted murder of body and soul and spirit. Nor would I call such a young man, under such conditions, a thief of rabbit food or cars. Nor would I consider such a Nazi bitch, as a mayor's wife, no less, keeping a car hidden under immediate occupation conditions as planning anything other than escape and evasion. Nor should such a Nazi bitch be seen as guilty of anything less than total support of the Nazi murder machine through her body and mind and efforts and agreement.

That young man, having survived a death camp experience to which that Nazi bitch deliberately, knowingly and sadistically added a brutal beating and soul degradation, should have executed her for her sadistic and life-threatening attack against him specifically, and her crimes against humanity generally. That he didn't was a moral mistake, which I excuse because of his obvious psychological trauma at the time - especially of the type of moral lies and factual obfuscation which you are carefully espousing in this thread, and which I clarified above. A starving man beaten with a nightstick by an SS guard, and you claim that he wasn't hospitalized at a death camp as proof of its triviality? I can hear the sticking black hole of your lack of conscience all the way across the Net! You would have done well as a defense attorney at Nuremberg.

Now go ahead and put this reply on your fetish obsession profile page. You know that's using your ID page for stalking, right?

Yeah, you know.

30 posted on 11/09/2014 5:06:12 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

“Not stupidly - intelligently.”

Oh, so you “intelligently” want “a 16 year old boy [to murder] a woman and child”?

“And not the child, that’s your perverted fantasy.”

No. Read the story

“She had the baby in her arms again... I had been raised to believe that life was a precious gift from God, that women and children must be protected. Had I pulled the trigger, I would have been like Mengele. He, too, had faced mothers holding babies — my mother holding my baby brother — and sentenced both to gruesome deaths. My moral upbringing would not allow me to become an honorary member of the SS.”

“Now go ahead and put this reply on your fetish obsession profile page.”

No need.

“You know that’s using your ID page for stalking, right?”

Nope. You can handle anything from your armchair, right cowboy?


31 posted on 11/09/2014 5:14:19 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
You can handle anything from your armchair, right cowboy?

Anything? No.

You? With ease.

Now you just run along and defend more rich, calculating, sadistic Blessed Virgin Nazi mayor's wives from those dangerous ex-death camp, starving tattered-rag wearing Jews.

In fact, you should write a book about it. You could have a picture of the Jewish prisoner, starving and in stripes, and call it "Check Your Privilege." Or maybe you could have the Nazi bitch in a leather corset and death's head cap, champagne in one hand, baby in the other, and call it "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen."

Personally, my book would quote Patton saying "Grease your tank treads with their guts."

But then, I'm not politically correct.

32 posted on 11/09/2014 5:38:05 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

“Now you just run along and defend more rich, calculating, sadistic Blessed Virgin Nazi mayor’s wives from those dangerous ex-death camp, starving tattered-rag wearing Jews.”

Wow, you’re frothing at the mouth aren’t you?

“In fact, you should write a book about it. You could have a picture of the Jewish prisoner, starving and in stripes, and call it “Check Your Privilege.” Or maybe you could have the Nazi bitch in a leather corset and death’s head cap, champagne in one hand, baby in the other, and call it “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.””

Honestly the single best rebuttal to your posts is just letting people look at them as you make a fool out of yourself.

“Personally, my book would quote Patton saying “Grease your tank treads with their guts.””

You probably know a lot less about Patton than you think. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/patton-questions-necessity-of-germanys-denazification

“But then, I’m not politically correct.”

No, you just support murdering women and children.


33 posted on 11/09/2014 6:07:38 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
No, you just support murdering women and children.

Enough of your lies - I've made my definitions very clear. Your refusal to acknowledge them changes nothing. Killing that Nazi bitch would have been an act of war against an enemy combatant - especially after the finding of the hidden car. She had no rights, you fool. Murder was what she tried to do to him - and God knows how many others. Holding a baby is utterly irrelevent and an obvious ploy, and killing her would have had nothing to do with harming the baby - except free it from being raised by an evil monster.

But whatever. Your arrogant, facile and dishonest defense of Nazi sadists and murderers damns you far beyond anything I could possibly say.

When I said "you're gone," wasn't referring to your ability to type.

34 posted on 11/09/2014 6:57:44 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

“Enough of your lies”

Your own words convict you. Anyone reading this thread can see what you have said.

“Your arrogant, facile and dishonest defense of Nazi sadists and murderers damns you far beyond anything I could possibly say.”

You’re the only one defending murder here - you’re calling for it no less. I oppose murder. You don’t - not even of a woman and child.

“When I said “you’re gone,” wasn’t referring to your ability to type.”

I know. And you’re still defending murder of a woman and a child. That’s who you are.


35 posted on 11/09/2014 7:03:58 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
And you’re still defending murder of a woman and a child. That’s who you are.

Try harder, LOL.

36 posted on 11/09/2014 7:09:50 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Norm Lenhart; definitelynotaliberal

had you read the article as “definitelynot” suggested, you’d know that the mayor and his wife, after seeing Buchenwald, slit their wrists. She didn’t raise the child, it was raised an orphan.


37 posted on 11/09/2014 7:18:41 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Talisker

“Try harder, LOL.”

I don’t even have to try. Your posts do all the work for me:”Killing that Nazi bitch... She had no rights, you fool. Murder was what she tried to do to him - and God knows how many others.”

Of course, there’s no evidence in the article that she attempted to kill anyone ever. The boy was beaten. There was no attempt to murder him and there’s no evidence the woman wanted him dead either.

“Holding a baby is utterly irrelevent and an obvious ploy, and killing her would have had nothing to do with harming the baby - except free it from being raised by an evil monster.”

Except she was holding the baby and they had machine guns. How accurate is a machine gun in the hands of 16 year old with little or no knowledge of them?

“But whatever. Your arrogant, facile and dishonest defense of Nazi sadists and murderers damns you far beyond anything I could possibly say.”

Like I said: Your own words convict you.


38 posted on 11/09/2014 7:23:04 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: EDINVA

Best possible outcome. The evil offed itself and the kid then had a chance. I’d still rather they had taken the kid and handed it to the girl mentioned. Which I did read.

So forgive my mistake in not finishing the article. Or not. your call.


39 posted on 11/09/2014 7:25:04 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: vladimir998
Of course, there’s no evidence in the article that she attempted to kill anyone ever. The boy was beaten. There was no attempt to murder him and there’s no evidence the woman wanted him dead either.

There's your Big Lie, which you have repeated ad nauseum.

The Nazis were very fond of your technique. What a coincidence.

40 posted on 11/09/2014 7:48:26 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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