[net.religion.jewish] Repost: Auschwitz survivor wins libel suit

s255@sol1.UUCP (alcmist) (01/20/86)

This article is not on a religious topic, but I hope it will be of 
interest here.  If anyone thinks it inappropriate, please let me know.

Last year Mel Mermelstein of Long Beach settled a lawsuit against the
Institute for Historical Review, which claimed that the Holocaust
never happened and "offered" a $50,000 reward to anyone who could 
prove that it did.  The IHR agreed to pay the reward, his legal expenses,
and damages rather let the case be decided in court.

Mr. Mermelstein's insistence that his experiences at Auschwitz were real
attracted the attention of Ditleib Felderer in Sweden.  Felderer is
another of those who claim that Hitler never killed any Jews, and he
distributed fliers calling Mermelstein a "racist and exterminationist" 
(sic).

A jury in Los Angeles has found that Felderer libeled Mermelstein and
awarded $5.25 million in damages.

Fred Wamsley   ihnp4!sol1!s255