Montreal, Canada – Jewish groups are denouncing a curiosity shop where a bar of soap allegedly made from Holocaust victims’ fat is for sale.
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The beige bar of soap, in a store on Montreal’s Plateau-Mont-Royal, is inscribed with a swastika and displayed in a glass case with a card that says “Poland 1940.”
The store owner – who is Jewish – claims the soap was “made out of people … the fat of people,” but he wouldn’t grant an interview about his stock, explaining he thought it was important to display and sell such items to remember the Holocaust.
Fake or real, the soap is outrageous, and “this individual, and others like him, are not preserving history in any way,” said Alice Herscovitch, director of Montreal’s Holocaust Centre.
“The sale of objects which glorify Nazism and hatred, to me, do nothing. They certainly don’t help us remember.”
The idea is also disgusting, she said.
“These are items that should not be out there in a promotional, sales kind of way.”
Most Jewish historians and Holocaust experts say stories about mass-produced soap using human remains are untrue, even though there is evidence Nazis experimented with saponification during the Second World War in European concentration camps.
The purchase or sale of items with swastikas is not illegal under Canadian law, but selling soap made with human remains is, explained B’nai Brith Canada’s chief legal counsel, Anita Bromberg.
And claiming it is – if it isn’t – is also illegal because it is fraud, she added.
“It’s just offensive to the core,” said Bromberg, who is based in Toronto. “I can’t imagine that someone would even pretend to say they’re collecting it for historical interest.”
The shop owner also sells a braid of hair labelled as originating from a Nazi “extermination camp.”
He said he wouldn’t sell any of the items to a neo-Nazi.
“He said he wouldn’t sell any of the items to a neo-Nazi. “
Does he think they all have swastika tattoos on their foreheads??
This is sick and I am, as I am sure most human beings are, disgusted to the core.
The item is clearly a fraud. Not only is the whole story of the Nazis turning Jews into soap false, but even it it had been true there is no way it could have happened as early as 1940. The “final solution” wasn’t decided on until 1941, and the whole system of assembly-line slaughter didn’t get into full “production” until at least ’42. The evil of the Nazis is precisely that they were so rational and methodical about all this, and treated it like an industry.
and instead of buying & burying it k’haluche they just make a comosion about it.
well, now that we know how it’s done, perhaps we should show him…
I would love to turn this guy into a lampshade, or a bar of soap, what a swine
he should be charged under some fraud law
To broaden the question, would he sell items “made by slave labor from before the US Civil War?” Or “bones from the Cambodian Pol Pot killing fields?”
In the words of the late Jon Belushi, I hate Ontario Nazis.
This individual is causing much pain and embarrassment not just to his own family but the entire jewish community, his claim is all false, just looking for negative attention.
No amount of soap could cleanse this despicable fraud
RE; to No. 2. “The ITEM is clearly a fraud . You mean the store-owner.?
This Menuvel is a retail merchant. It would be more important to find the distrbutors and / or the real conspirators .
Reply to No. 21. Thank you, for your clear assessment .I ,agree wholeheartedly .
” A small coin in a empty can, makes a loud noise ” .
Re; to . No. 21. He strikes me as a pathetic narcissist ,craving for attention .
this guy shoudl be required by law to bury this item. if he has any soul he woudl bury this.
No. 28. You are right The posting was meant as a compliment to No . 21 . He,is a well informed and quite honest Yid.
And I ,am sure he will. He is a Yid ,not a monster .
Regretfully, a “Heimishe” magazine glorified the purchase of a Nazi Diary as noble. So where do u draw the line?
Hmm Er iz in Gantzen Meshiga
The store-owner is engaging in something extremely terrible and should stop. That said I believe historian Raul Hilberg debunked the soap charge. He should know.