A Jewish family history, including 22 in the Yad Vashem submitted Victims – the German blogger moved and historians Hingst for years of attention. Now it is clear: most of it was freely invented.
In the hall of names in Yad Vashem pages of testimony of the Holocaust are collected to the victims and issued
“It is the task of Yad Vashem, document to collect documentary materials in Israel about all the Jews who sacrificed their lives against the Nazi enemy and his helpers fought and rebelled. Their names and their memory should be perpetuated ( … ), ” it says on the top of the pages of testimony from Yad Vashem, the Central Israeli memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
The form can retrieve each online, and by Mail or a digital-to-Israel send. Things like Name, place of residence and occupation can be queried in it – with the goal of preserving the culture of remembrance and to give at least a portion of the approximately six million Holocaust Victims an identity.
On 8. September 2013 filled also Marie Sophie from Hingst of Germany, the form – to remain without the truth. Thus, in Ireland, living in the promo claimed fourth historian with 22 completed memorial or the victims of arches that large parts of their family had perished in the Holocaust. A recent report by the news magazine “Spiegel”, according to the Jewish family invented history, however.
In truth, a preacher’s daughter
As the week magazine writes, according to research in the city archives of Stralsund, comes Hingst from a Protestant family. Your grandfather should not have been, therefore, as she claimed – a prisoner in the Auschwitz extermination camp, but a Protestant pastor.
For the 21 other alleged Holocaust victims can be seen in any of the archive can be found in the Digital Collections of the tracing service the International Tracing Service in the archives of the Auschwitz memorial, or the memorial book of the Federal archives for the victims of national socialist persecution of Jews in Germany, writes the mirror.
But once in the world, the spread of Marie Sophie Hingst your invented family history in a number of Ways: In presentations in front of the Jewish Community, in your Blog “Read on, my dear, read on” (he is one of nearly 240,000 regular readers; presumably due to current events he is not currently accessible), in conversations with fellow students.
Self-esteem as a Motivation?
The first years in Dublin, so she told the mirror, had been hard years for you. You’ve hardly known anyone had been isolated. In that time, started Hingst your Blog, made so, perhaps a “substitute home” and made as an alleged descendant of Holocaust Victims at the same time, more interesting than “other, non-Jewish German”.
Marie Sophie Hingst at the award ceremony for the “blogger of the year” 2017
For their work, the Telling of the Suffering of their supposed Jewish ancestors got hung a lot of recognition. In 2017, it was named the “blogger of the year” (see image above). In the following year, their price is awarded the “Financial Times” in an essay competition on the “Future of Europe”. Also, since language Hingst of their alleged Jewish family and compared their fate with that of the refugees today in Europe’s shores. There was a lot of applause.
“Often the only evidence for the existence of a Holocaust victim”
The Team of “The Golden Blogger”, the Hingst honored in 2017 as the blogger of the year, announced on Twitter that it had asked the winner to comment and advise on a response to the allegations. A spokesman for Yad Vashem said the German press Agency on Sunday (2.6.2019), you have to pass the Hingst submitted, commemorative arches for further investigation to the experts.
Further, he said: “Often the memorial pages are the only evidence for the existence of a Holocaust victim.” The pages would be tested after their Delivery in the short to verify basic information, such as biographical and geographical information. Basically, you assume that the memorial pages are filled with honest intentions, and, ultimately, the Person you are submitting to be responsible for the content. The spokesman admitted: “This process is completely secure (…)”.
Suddenly, the only “literature”
The reaction of Marie Sophie of Hingst to the revelations was surprisingly. Through her lawyer, she informed the mirror that the texts take in your Blog “a considerable degree of artistic freedom to claim”. “It is literature, not journalism or historiography.” In addition, you have spread “at any time” in the “context of the texts with real life data and untruths about their own family history”. Although you have handed over a “list of 22 persons from the estate of her grandmother,” at Yad Vashem, but you cannot check it.
The case, Marie, Sophie, the only one of the painful history of the Jews during the Second world war, the Profit was hit is not Hingst, whether it’s for financial reasons or to the attention of will.
So, in 1995, appeared with “fragments from a Childhood” false memories of the alleged Latvian Holocaust Survivor Binjamin Wilkomirski, the not turned out to be a Swiss Jew.
Only at the end of last year came to light, that the long-standing Chairman of the Jewish community of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Wolfgang Seibert, his Jewish origin also had thought of: While his foster parents were Jewish, his birth but there were not.
Fake Holocaust autobiography, “Survive among wolves”
Financial benefits is likely to have the Belgian Monique de Wael promised, as she published under the Pseudonym Misha Defonseca in 1997 her book, “Survive among wolves”. In it, she describes her escape as eight-year-old Jewish girl in Belgium, Germany and Poland, when she accompanied the wolves, and eventually in the pack to have. But: this, Too, was invented, and so the author had to pay 22.5 million dollars (16.3 million Euro) to your publisher punishment.
Marie Sophie Hingst, in contrast to Seibert, and Defonseca committed a fraud in the legal sense. But they all have deceived the Public, lack of respect for the culture of remembrance proved, and Holocaust victims mocked.