London – At first glance it looks like any tatty old lampshade – the sort that are gathering dust in houses all over the world.
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Then you notice the weird, parchment-like fabric stretched over eight panels, so thin it is almost translucent.
On closer inspection the yellowy material is marked with strange pores, filaments and patterns which look disturbingly like one thing only – HUMAN SKIN.
Surely it can’t be?
The lamp’s owner Mark Jacobson said: “It weighs about a pound. But the more time you spend with it the more it begins to weigh heavy on your mind. It really does look strange.
“We’ve all heard the stories of the Nazi human lampshades.”
There have been many fakes over the years but no proven examples of a real Nazi lamp made from the skin of Jewish prisoners in concentration camps during the Second World War.
However, one crucial early scientific test set this lamp apart.
When Mark, an American, sent a small piece away for DNA testing at Bode Technology near Washington DC it came back as “100 per cent human”.
Disgusting beyond belief the nazis shem reshoim yirkov were inhuman such scum and dirt amalek at its worst and the sick leftist liberals of the world dare to compare Israel to nazis such a disgrace
Disgusting. VIN this picture should be shown with a warning. I hope we all learn to stand up for other races as well. We shouldn’t stay quiet because that is what others did. They stayed quiet. No nation should have to go through a holocaust. Out of respect this shouldn’t even be kept as a lampshade. remove the skin from the lamp shade and give it , its proper burial.
Unfortunately it is true. In 1958 my neighbour, who had been in the camps, showed me pictures of the lampshade and also of soap.–.
Ilse Koch the wife of the Buchenwald commander made lamp shades.
How is it that the skin did not rot away over the years?
i think you need to bury it
The myth of human lampshades and soap has been dispelled years ago. It is true that the wife of Buchenwald comendant, whenever she saw a prisoner with a nice tatoo she had him killed and the tatoo added to her collection. The nazis did use parchment from torahs to make lampshades, that is probably the source of the myth. The nazis also used to taunt the jews in the camps that if they don’t behave they will be turned into soap. That is probably the source of that myth.
This particular case is probably a hoax. In 65 years it would have been discovere sooner.
I have seen pictures of mattresses stuffed with human hair supposesly from jews.
I would like to see if it is of real human skin. There have been rumors that the Nazis made lampshades from humans, I would like to see evidence, as some people believe it is a hoax. That lampshade looks creepy thought, gives me the chills.
Not sure about the soap, does anyone know any evidence of Nazi soap made from Jews?