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From: "Barbara J. Mathews" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Misha Defonseca Holocaust fraud case in the Boston Globe
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:09:30 -0500
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This story really hit home for me. My father's uncle Charles Pons [Dad's
name was Charles Pons Mathews] was killed as a nationalist by the Nazis in
Belgium, as was Misha's father. My father's cousin Marcel survived a
concentration camp. Both met their fates because of nationalism. But the
rest of the family survived. Aunt Julia and little Albert were never
arrested.

This makes my family's experience completely different from that of Jewish
families. All members of Jewish families died. All of them. That's what
makes it genocide and not war.

I am not happy that Misha takes the experience of a nationalist family and
abuses the holocaust experience of the Jews to give herself credibility or
sympathy or whatever. It makes me angry. And I'm saying that as a person
whose Belgium family had an experience in World War II similar to that of
Misha's family. That's no way to bear witness to the holocaust. Misha's
actions are an abuse.

Had to get that off my chest. Please don't think that all Belgium
nationalist families would react the way Misha did. She shames us.

Barbara

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