"True Lies" The Lost Childhood of a Liar and Denier All Rights Reserved. Copyright by the builder of geocities.com/unlikelychildhood web site in Australia.. This material, including text and photographs, may not be reproduced in whole or in part by mimeograph or any other means without the written permission of the author. Yehuda Nir’s Book  “The Lost Childhood” is another "holocaust survivor” story written by a man whose mind is clouded by hate for the German people, even against the Brockschmidts, a German family who gave his mother, sister and himself shelter in their Warsaw apartment and for seven months on their farm in Germany until the end of World War 2.  Yehuda Nir smears the Brockschmidts, denying they saved his family from Nazi persecution and certain death. He slanders the Brockschmidts only son, (Wolfgang) David Brockschmidt, by calling him a liar. Yehuda’s pathological hate for the German nation makes him blind to the proven fact that the Brockschmidts risked their own lives to give his family and other Jews and non-Jews shelter, false identity papers and jobs which put him in the position to have written his book. He defames the memory of the dead of the whole German nation. Let us have a closer look at these "True Memoirs" of this "Mini" Mordechai Yankelevich" who says he fought the SS in the underground war in Warsaw in 1944 and was also a Soviet Pioneer youth leader at the age of ten. He claims a Jewish capitalist background and to have spoken five languages at the age of ten. He professes at this age to know more about military strategy than his hero comrade Stalin. . The boy must have been a "wunderkind Aren't we blessed to still have him here today?  Thanks to the Brockschmidts so he can bring us, as Chaim Potok, from the NewYork Newsday says an (unforgettable) “true” survivor story. There is no business like Shoah businesses ex-chief Rabbi of London Lord Jacobowitz told the world. And the Australian Jewish personality Frantizek Knopfellmacher said, The holocaust Racketeers and Corpse Peddlers make millions out of the Holocaust victims. Yehuda tells his readers he comes from a wealthy Polish-Jewish family and his father had Germans working for him in his household. Yehuda’s Uncle Arthur criticised his father for employing ethic Germans in his household. His father responds, “I love it. Don’t forget they’re working for me” (Emphasis is mine). It is not generally know but the Jews of Europe were just as discriminatory to Gentiles as the latter were to the former.   He must have been sexually early developed as he was already playing, as he says, “perverse little games with a six-year old Catholic girl”. He admits on the same page that he had an "identity split" at the age of ten. Stalin was his benign grandfatherly hero. How Yehuda with a capitalist background became a leader of a Soviet Pioneer group at the age of ten, remains a mystery because the Soviets normally chose older children from working class backgrounds. Yehuda tells us that in the spring of 1941, "Stalin must have been less in touch with the war situation than he.”  I wonder if Yehuda knows what we know today, that Stalin was ready to invade Germany and Europe right up to the Atlantic. The Soviet Union had the biggest military machine in the history of mankind. Stalin’s attack date was for 6 July, 1941. Hitler knew this and launched his pre-emptive strike against the Soviets three weeks earlier on the 21 June, 1941 thus limiting Stalin’s conquest to half of Europe. Did Yehuda know that, too? What a lost talent. He tells us that at the age of eleven he was an expert of war. Truly amazing. Yehuda tells us the Ukrainians were fiercely anti-Communist and "at the first sign of Russian weariness, they joined the ranks of the Nazis. He is not telling us "Why"? He conveniently "forgot" the anti-communism and anti-Semitism of Eastern Europe, the Ukraine and Russia was rooted in Lenin's and Stalin's Holocaust which killed 66 million Gentiles and tens of thousands of religious and non-Bolshevik Jews from 1917 to 1953 the year Stalin died.  Eastern Europeans have not forgotten nor forgiven humanity’s second biggest holocaust - the biggest was the Maoist Holocaust with eighty million Chinese victims. It is an historical fact that the driving force of the Bolshevik holocaust was of Jewish origin. 92% of Lenin’s first Petrograd government were Jews. (see the Trotsky and Kaganovich List on the Adelaide Institute Website at www.adam.com.au/fredadin/  As the Jewish people will never forgive or forget the Himmler's and Heydrich's, Russians and Eastern Europeans will never forgive or forget the Trotsky's and Kaganovich's both of whom were Jewish Bolshevik henchmen of Lenin and Stalin. Seven million people were killed and starved to death by these Bolshevik bloodhounds in one year. Before Auschwitz came the Gulag.  Have you forgotten that, Yehuda? There is always cause and effect in history. Both innocent Jews and Gentiles alike have paid the ultimate price. This is the tragedy of mankind which is repeating until today. We continue with Yehuda’s incredible journey through history. He says just one Jew, Hugo von Hoffmannstal, was granted the title of "Honorary Aryan" and that was post humously.  Well, Yehuda, you have not done your homework. At least four thousand Jews and half-Jews served in the German forces between 1933 and 1945. Three were Field Marshals. They were not only honorary Aryans, but declared of "German Blood" by Hitler personally. Hitler also decorated with Iron Crosses Jewish-German World War 1 soldiers between 1934 until 1939. The Bolshevik Jews had their heroes in Lenin and Stalin and their Jewish henchmen, Trotsky and Kaganovich. The Fascist Jews would have joined the Nazis if the Nurnberg (Nuremberg) Racial laws of 1935 had not have prevented them. The Jewish people had their own fascist movement like Betar, for example, and their own Fascist leaders like Chaim Alozoroff and Vladimir Yabotinsky - Ben Gurion called him Vladimir Hitler. This includes the Zionist-Fascist killers like Itzrak Shamir, Menachim Begin and the Zionist Fascist killers, Baruch Goldstein, Myer Kahane and others. Yehuda claims the Goyim (Gentiles), which means cattle and ass according to the Babylonian Talmud, were seen as strangers by Jews, the people on the other side of the fence. The tragedy of Jewish history is that they built most of these fences - creating their own gettoes. Jewish unwillingness to assimilate into host countries, belittling the host’s religion and culture and exploiting the non-Jewish working class created anti-Semitism.  Where there is anti-Semitism there is Semitism. Where there is Semitism there is antigentilism. The Jewish upper class in Poland often told the Gentile peasants the streets belong to you Polacks but the Houses belong to us. Yehuda says,  “many Poles eagerly helped in the liquidation of the Jews. These blackmailers were not motivated by greed alone, for them it was a ‘labour of love’.” But in Russia they still say the destruction of Russia was done by Red Latvian bayonets, Jewish brains and Russian stupidity.  Has Yehuda forgotten the background of anti-Semitism? Now we come to the part in Yehuda's never ending journey where he denigrates the Brockschmidts, the saviors of his family, At least he admits that Mr Brockschmidt treated his mother well. "She was now able to supply us with almost unlimited amounts of food", he says. What that meant in World War 2 where people were starving everywhere could only be understood by someone who has gone through such an experience. Yehuda Nir is a storyteller and “Holocaust survivor” who never set foot in a forced labor or Concentration camp. As a young boy between 12 and 14 years who lived on the kindness, love and generosity of his Gentile Saviors tells us in his book: “I wished a bomb would explode on the lovely street - in the German section of Warsaw - and tear the playing children to pieces - all of them.” Yehuda forgets in his blind hate for Germans, that he was living in one of these "lovely" streets in the luxurious apartment of the Brockschmidts where he and his family could live in security and comfort. His survivor-guilt complex gives him no rest! He projects his protector as his enemy. He tells his readers that Mr Brockschmidt was a playboy with a perverted mind who worked little and spent most of his time with an endless array of young Polish girls. He describes the Brockschmidt’s Warsaw apartment as a Nazi Whorehouse with his, Yehuda’s mother, as a kind of Madame in charge of Nazi orgies. Did not Yehuda tell us in the beginning of his ‘holocaust story’ that he had a split personality at ten years old? And it became worse. Yehuda contemplates, "I was fooling the whole world, Poles and Germans alike. I thought that if I survived the war I should become a spy or maybe a diplomat" Well, Yehuda must have been foolish to believe he fooled the Goys. He fooled no one. His idea to become a diplomat after the war would have been appropriate. Diplomats always lie. Instead Yehuda became a shrink! He works to help others see reality but cannot see it himself. Yehuda continues to tell us he went to the movies and/or the theatre at least once or twice a week, and that in war torn Warsaw of 1944?  His family lived very well in the Brockschmidt’s Warsaw apartment. He says his mother had unlimited spending money – Brockschmidt’s money. His sister worked as a technical assistant for a German dentist, an SS man who wore his uniform under a white coat. Yehuda remembers his birthday party when he turned 14 "in the apartment of a German businessman (Brockschmidt) and financed with his money.  Gefillte Fish would be served and followed by chopped liver, chicken soup and desserts all financed by Herr Heinrich Brockschmidt.”  All this in Warsaw in 1944! Yehuda had a love affair with the Polish-Catholic girl – Kasia. He says, "She asked, would I marry her?  'Of course'.  I lied again, 'You know how much I love you, don't you'." Now comes Yehuda's military career. He joins the Armia Krajowa - The Polish underground army on the 25th of August 1944. His Gentile pseudonym is Julek Heybowicz, his army I.D. Card number is 7868 signed by District Commander Colonel Raiwan. I went to the Headquarters of the Armia Krajowa in Warsaw. The staff spent four days searching  their archives for Julek Heybowicz. They confirmed that Colonel Rajwan existed, but no Julek Heybowicz.  Nor did his I.D. card number 7868 exist in the Armia Krajowa archives. (See the Armia Krajowa letter confirming this). I sent a copy to Yehuda Nir, asking he provide a copy of his Armia Krajowa ID card. He has not responded. David Brockschmidt made a similar request without success. True Lies Again? Near the end of Yehuda Nir’s journey through war he says, “I thanked God for having created the sexually perverted German mind.”  I wondered if this is a printing mistake. Perhaps it should have read – the split and sexually perverted mind of Yehuda Nir. Arriving in Germany and chauffeur driven with his family in the Brockschmidt'’ car Yehuda tells his readers, “Seeing Berlin in October, 1944 was a heart warming experience for the city was devastated. Buildings were burnt out and whole streets were in ruins. One old Jew told me, “The problem with some Jews is their hate! Especially their anti-gentillic hate. The hate for everything non-Jewish as laid down in their moral guideline, the 2500 year old Babylonian Talmud! An old Jewish Prophet said, “The destruction of the Jewish people will not come from outside but from within.” For the last part of the book the arrival of Yehuda, his sister and his mother on Brockschmidts farm in October, 1944. I interviewed David (Wolfgang) Brockschmidt who lives now with his wife and daughter in Adelaide, South Australia. Frederick Toben: David, do you personally know Yehuda Nir and his family? David Brockschmidt: I know him from Israel where I lived in 1967. I also visited him and his family with my wife in New York Frederick Toben: Have you read Yehuda Nir’s book, Lost Childhood? David Brockschmidt: Yes, I have read his book. He sent me a copy attached with a letter. I give you permission to publish this letter. Here is the book he sent me and here is the relevant part of his letter dated from the 19 June, 1997: Hi Wolfgang, “It seems to be that you are tormented like all Germans in your generation by the crimes perpetrated by their parents and grandparents. This is the heritage one has to carry through one’s life and this is the punishment inflicted by your past, by the Germans and all the future generations forever. Read Goldhagen’s book, This is Where You Are Coming From. Not From the Land of Milk and Honey, But From the Land of Blood and Murder. I was told by a famous professor that the Germans will never forgive the Jews for the holocaust because it unleashed the beast in them. I can understand that you are obsessively and desperately looking for a way to clear your conscience, to clear the German history. First you made your parents our saviors – a lie; now you are telling us that the Jews, the Israelis, are as bad, as criminal as your Germans. You want other people to sound as bad as the Germans, but nothing, nothing in the history of humanity can be compared to what your people did to the Jews. Nothing compares to the perverted German mind that created the perfect machinery that was behind the “Final Solution.” David Brockschmidt: Yehuda mentions Goldhagen’s book. He should read “A Nation on Trial” by Bettina Birn and Norman Finkelstein”. It exposes Goldhagen’s book as a totally fabricated and useless piece of history. It amazes me how Yehuda Nir can throw so much vitriolic hate at me and my family. It clearly shows the confused state of mind of this man. When he writes in his letter, “the crimes perpetrated by my parents and my grandparents”. My parents or grandparents have not committed any crimes against the Jewish people or anybody else. QUITE THE OPPOSITE  Besides hiding Jews and non-Jews on our farm in Germany my father was the key figure and business partner of Oskar Schindler organising the railway transport permits and lending his trucks to Schindler to transport approximately twelve hundred Schindler Jews by rail and by road from Schinder’s factory in Krakow, Poland to his new factory in Brunnitz, Czechoslovakia. Yehuda Nir's book has some unbelievable parts in it. His fantasies, I believe, come out of his NON-INVOLVEMENT in the fighting when he was protected by the  so-called enemy, the Germans, my parents! Frederick Toben: Would you like to comment on what Yehuda says about your parents and your sister? David Brockschmidt: First let me tell you I strongly believe that this man is hate driven even against the people like my parents who loved him, his sister and his mother.  He  urgently needs help. Now to his description of our farm. . First the farm is in Herzberg, not Erzberg. My mother’s name was Herta, not Bertha. My sister’s name was Renate not Beate. The size of the farm was 170 acres not 700 acres. The farmhouse was not a mansion of palatial proportions but a pretty rundown house. Frederick Toben: How was the relationship between your sister and Yehuda Nir? David Brockschmidt: The villagers of Herzberg knew the Brockschmidts were hiding Jews, but none reported it to the Gestapo.  My sister got beaten up in school for that by other students. On Yehuda’s fifteenth birthday, 31st March, 1945 my mother baked a birthday cake for him and gave him a beautiful handknit sweater, as he says in his book. He says of my sister,  “I vented all my anger on little Beate (Renate) when we played ball. I aimed at her face, in hide and seek. I would trip her when she was about to find me, her parents would turn a deaf ear to her complaints about me, and I would call her a “liar” to their faces…”Making Beate’s (Renate) life miserable was my only fun. I regretted she was only 12 and so very ugly, otherwise I would have PLAYED DIFFERENT GAMES. “When we left the farm every one kissed goodbye. I just shook hands and kissed only Beate on the lips. I knew that she would find my kiss revolting on two accounts: First because I was a boy, secondly because I was a Jew. I didn’t know which would be worse for her.” Well, as you can see for yourself here this man has lost the plot. First my sister was not twelve years old and ugly but ten years old and beautiful. Here, look at her photograph, aged ten. Secondly in regard to this infamous kiss. Why should she have been offended by being kissed by a fifteen-year-old boy? She did not know any difference between Jewish and non-Jewish kisses. So whose mind is perverted here? Yehuda’s sexual fantasies are running wild again. Frederick Toben: Did your parents find out only in the end of March, 1945 that Yehuda Nir and his family was Jewish? David Brockschmidt: Of course not. My parents knew that they were Jewish since his sister and his mother knocked at my parents apartment door in Warsaw desperately asking for help and shelter in 1943. Yehuda’s real name is Julian Grunfeldt.  A nice German  name.  This is what Yehuda says in his book about the Jewishness of his family at his fifteenth birthday on 15 March, 1945  “ We knew that this was the moment of our greatest personal victory. Eight Germans cheering a Jew who had outwitted them all.” My God, this poor little soul filled with hate had outwitted no one. The Polish workers said Yehuda looked so Jewish that the Polish workers on the farm wanted to report him and his mother and sister to the Gestapo. My father stopped them with his shotgun and a compromise was reached. The poles promised to keep quiet and for that they were allowed to illegally make their own vodka on the farm. Yehuda tells us, “To call their (the Brockschmidts) attitude towards us as friendly would be an understatement. Loving might be more appropriate.” Well, that was correct, that is why I cannot understand the way he talks about my family – It’s all insane. Frederick Toben: Tell us more about the Grundfeld’s life on the farm. David Brockschmidt: Yehuda Nir’s sister was my baby sitter. His mother was the boss in the kitchen.  Yehuda tells us in his book he was the “king of shit” cleaning out the cowsheds from time to time. He said he could not get rid of the smell not even with the finest perfumed soap and shampoo. I was not aware there was perfumed soap and shampoo available on the Herzberg farm in 1945. My  parents told me they had to cook their own soap from pig’s bones (not from Jewish corpses). I think Yehuda, the “king of shit” as he calls himself tells us a lot of bullshit in his Lost Childhood soap opera. In my opinion he is the most ungrateful person I have ever come across in my life. He says in the end of his book about my parents in regard to saving his family, “Should one really be grateful to a driver for not running one over when he could have done it with impunity. Benevolence by omission?”   I am lost for words. This fellow is a sad case. Frederick Toben: But weren’t your parents honored as righteous gentiles and heroes by the State of Israel, the Yad Vashem Authorities in Jerusalem and your mother planted a tree in the Alley of Righteous Gentiles in the presence of Yehuda’s mother and sister? Didn’t your parents also receive the German Cross from the then West German President, Mr Walter Scheel for saving Jewish and non-Jewish lives in World War 2? David Brockschmidt: Yes, of course, the medals from both countries, documents, eyewitness accounts and international press reports are in my possession. They speak for themselves. The question arising out of  Yehuda’s denial comments is who are the liars and deniers here. You the reader will be the judge. Frederick Toben: David Brockschmidt, would you like to say some final words on Yehuda Nir’s book? David Brockschmidt: Reading just the introduction to his book by Samuel Beckett makes your blood run cold. It says, “Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come… Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies This shows the reader clearly in what state of mind he was when he wrote this book. Every child who goes through a war has lost a childhood. It does not matter whether the child was Polish, Czech, German, Russian, Jewish or whatever. They all lost their innocence. War as such is a crime. Yehuda lost a father in World War 2 but thanks mainly to my father he didn’t lose his sister, mother or his own life. I lost a sister in World War 2 who I miss more and more every day the older I get. Frederick Toben: Do you hate Yehuda Nir for what he said in his book about your family and calling you a liar? David Brockschmidt: How can I hate this man. He has to live with his hate, with his shortcomings and his inability to return the love he received from his saviors. We all have a clear conscience. We have done only good to the Grunfeldt family. My parents in World War 2 and I when I lived and worked in Israel in 1967 and later in the seventies. Frederick Toben: Has this negative experience with this ungrateful “Holocaust Survivor”, Yehuda Nir, turned you into an anti-Semite? David Brockschmidt: Not yet. I am neither anti-Semitic nor philosemitic. The Askenazis aren’t Semites in an anthropological sense, anyway. Read Arthur Koestler’s book, The Thirteenth Tribe. And in regard to Anti-Semitism I ask interested Jews and Gentiles alike to read the books by Kevin McDonald issued by Praeger, a leading U.S. academic publisher “A people that shall dwell alone”,  Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy and McDonalds latest book: Separation and its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of anti-Semitism. For Yehuda Nir both of these books are A MUST. In order to come to terms with his own condition and to break out OF HIS CONCEPTIAL PRISON OF SELF DECEPTION. What the AskeNazi Jews and Germans have in common is the fact that both of them have produced the best and the worst. If organised Jewry keeps on using the Nazi-Jewish holocaust as a political and financial weapon against Germany and other countries I believe it will backfire onto them. Their indirect hope that their behaviour will create the desired anti-Semitic reaction in the Gentile world in order to stop an “assimilation holocaust” is an illusion. Theodor Herzl once said, “Anti-Semitism is kind of divine. It gives us Jews our identity”. Well, I can assure you, most of the younger Jews and Gentiles will no longer buy into this nonsense. They marry who they want anyway and that is good. Frederick Toben: I would like to thank you for going with us together through this painful part of your family’s history. David Brockschmidt: Love, kindness and forgiveness are the way to salvation, not hate. Thankyou for having me and giving me the opportunity to put the family record straight, clear the name of my family and restore their honor. I owe that to my sister and my late parents who can no longer defend themselves. Truth will always prevail.