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Dec 13, 2009

Giuseppe Furioso on Holocaust survivor ''Yitzhak Ganon''

 

From: giuseppefurioso@aol.com

To: letters@nytimes.com
Sent: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 9:16 am
Subject: '' Yitzhak Ganon ''

To The Editor,
                     Let me see if I understand the article that appeared in today's Times about  Holocaust survivor Yitzhak Ganon's aversion to doctors. ( ''Heart Treated, Old Wound Opened'' :  NY Times , Dec. 13, 2009 ). According to the article Yitzhak was so traumatized by having his kidney removed by the infamous Dr. Mengele without anesthesia some 65 years ago while an inmate at Auschwitz that he refused to ever visit a doctor again. '' Mr. Ganon was tied down on a table, and without anesthesia was cut open by Dr. Mengele, who then removed a kidney. '' I saw the kidney pulsating in his hand and cried like a crazy man '' Mr. Ganon said.'' 
      
Although expected when dealing with claims of Holocaust survivors, it is still astonishing that, that the America's so-called ''newspaper of record ''   would put aside accepted practices and procedures of journalism and not challenge such an outrageous assertion. For one thing , a '' removed kidney would not pulsate '' but more importantly a kidney removal without anesthesia would have most certainly killed him. To it's credit the Times story omitted another claim reported by some of the wire service versions of the story that he was sent back to work within days of the operation. Neither did the Times include the claim that the reason he survived was  that he was # 201 on the line for the gas chamber whose capacity was 200. (  Shouldn't he then have been the first to go with the next batch of 200? )
 
giuseppe furioso


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