A Tale of six Gassings

      Another former inmate [of Belsen], Moshe Peer, recalled a miraculous escape from death as an eleven-year-old in the camp.

      In a 1993 interview with a Canadian newspaper, the French-born Peer claimed that he "was sent to the [Belsen] camp gas chamber at least six times." The newspaper account went on to relate: "Each time he survived, watching with horror as many of the women and children gassed with him collapsed and died. To this day, Peer doesn't know how he was able to survive."

      In an effort to explain the miracle, Peer mused: "Maybe children resist better, I don't know." (Although Peer claimed that "Bergen-Belsen was worse than Auschwitz," he acknowledged that he and his younger brother and sister, who were deported to the camp in 1944, all somehow survived internment there.)

"He's a Nazi!"
"How do you know?"
"He gassed me!"
"Is that all?"
"He gassed me again and again and again and again and again!"
"He gassed you six times?"
"I got better."

I mean is there any more absurd witness than this? Certainly there is. I simply have not added them yet.