Why do some people lie about being Holocaust survivors?

For fame, money, sympathy. Even Elie Wiesel has a story that does not match up historically. The admiration of holocaust survivors is almost saintly. The personal biographies are often filled with falsehood and imagination. read more

People have lied about being places, or doing things. People have lied to get attention or to avoid attention. People have lied to cause trouble and to get out of trouble. People have lied about being veterans, millionaires, inventors, priests, doctors, cancer survivors, married, single, pregnant, not pregnant. read more

People do math assuming that each and every body was cremated, and that teeth was being ground as well. Bodies were stacked like chord wood and mass buried, or burned in an open pit. As for the reality of the holocaust, I have uncles and close friends who served in the military and witnessed the result of these camps. read more