Re: Examples of the argument from gullibility to plagiarized schlock
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 3:08 pm
This entire article is available online.Nessie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2026 2:42 pmWhy is that a mistake?pilgrimofdark wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2026 1:52 pm ...
Flaws's third nosewitness about the smell of Treblinka is Jakub Krzepicki, who is usually mistakenly referred to as Abraham Krzepicki.
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https://muzeumtreblinka.eu/en/informacj ... ram-jakub/
"Abram Jakub Krzepicki was born in 1915 in Praszka..."
https://www.jhi.pl/en/articles/a-man-es ... epicki,391
"On 13 September 1942, Abraham (Jakub) Krzepicki escaped from the Treblinka II..."
https://1943.pl/en/artykul/the-victim-a ... er-part-1/
"On 13 September 1943, Abram Jakub Krzepicki managed to escape from the extermination camp in Treblinka."
And there's a Yad Vashem page of testimony from his sister, calling him Jakob Jozef Krzepicki, stating his profession was a tailor.In all of these publications, the contents are attributed to Avraham Krzepicki. Documents and a photograph attached to the original manuscript, however, indicate that the witness’ correct name is Yaakov Krzepicki. This was subsequently confirmed by his brother, Menachem Krzepicki, who met with Auerbach and gave testimony to Yad Vashem in 1967.
- Prais, Lea. “‘Jews from the World to Come’: The First Testimonies of Escapees from Chełmno and Teblinka in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942-1943.” Translated by Natali Greenwood. Yad Vashem Studies 42, no. 1 (2014): 47. https://www.yadvashem.org/research/yv-s ... /42-1.html.
edit: Link to his brother's testimony. Seems to be partly Auerbach, partly Menachem. Google still struggles to translate Yiddish, but it's comprehensible.
