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	1991 - Never Forget
		Mel puts explanations underneath and describes how items were used and under which conditions people had to suffer to anybody interested in learning about the holocaust.
		Mel is working long nights showing signs of exhaustion and the eldest feels that he is not important to his father.
		Mel shares that he was the only survivor and that he has promised his father, before he was killed, never to stop talking about what happened there and whatever happens he would never forget his promise given to his father.
	www.ponilla.org /Nimoy/movies_NeverForget.htm (1871 words)

	Mel Mermelstein (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mel Mermelstein is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auchwitz who defeated a Holocaust denial organization in an American court and had the occurance of the Holocaust's declared a legally incontestable fact.
		Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz, wrote a letter to the Jerusalem Post claiming he could prove that Jews were gassed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
		Mermelstein was portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in a 1991 TV movie on the lawsuit called Never Forget.
	publicliterature.org.cob-web.org:8888 /en/wikipedia/m/me/mel_mermelstein.html (325 words)

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		Mel Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald, and all other survivors of Auschwitz for the pain, anguish and suffering he and all other Auschwitz survivors have sustained relating to the $50,000 reward offer for proof that "Jews were gassed in gas chambers at Auschwitz".
		Mermelstein contended he was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald; knew, or should have known, that Mr.
		Mermelstein and other survivors of Auschwitz to suffer severe emotional distress which the Institute for Historical Review and Legion for Survival of Freedom, now recognize is regrettable and abusive to survivors of Auschwitz.
	shamash.org /holocaust/denial/mervsIHR.txt (1671 words)

	The Lompoc Record
		Mel Mermelstein was the sole survivor of his family after they were interred at the infamous Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Poland, during World War II.
		Mermelstein, who was born in Czechoslovakia, said he was a teenager when Hungarian fascists rounded up his family and sent them to Auschwitz.
		Mermelstein was among 200 prisoners forced to march to the new camp.
	www.lompocrecord.com /articles/2006/04/26/news/news01.txt (829 words)

	Current Affair - Never Forget
		Mel Mermelstein’s fight for truth is fought in a Los Angeles court room more over thirty years after he survived the atrocities of a Nazi-concentration camp.
		Mermelstein succeeded in getting the Holocaust declared an indisputable historical fact by the court.
		Mermelstein himself was playing his own father in the scene where his family is taken away to a concentration camp.
	www.ponilla.org /Nimoy/Interviews_CA_NF.htm (439 words)

	Holocaust Deniers: The Institute for Historical Review - Part two
		A more constructive challenge to IHR took place when Mel Mermelstein, a Holocaust survivor, responded to a long-standing offer of the IHR to pay $50,000 for proof that gas chambers actually functioned at Auschwitz.
		When IHR refused to pay Mermelstein after he supplied requisite historical and physical evidence, he took the organization to court, and in July 1985 won a $90,000 settlement.
		Mermelstein's second suit against IHR was dismissed in September 1991.
	www.adl.org /holocaust/ihr-2.asp (1067 words)

	History and 'Memory': An Examination of the Evidence of 'Holocaust Witness' Mel Mermelstein
		Mel Mermelstein, in 1944, May the 22nd, at dawn, saw his mother and two sisters among other Jewish women and children from his hometown, lured and driven into gas chambers disguised as shower rooms at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination center in Poland.
		Mermelstein's precision on this point is all the more noteworthy considering his numerous visits to Auschwitz (more than a dozen, he says), his testimony given there, and his evident concern, expressed in his public statements, with the details of Auschwitz and the standard Holocaust legend.
		Mermelstein claims that he and the rest of his family arrived by train at Auschwitz on May 21, 1944 -- that is, during the May-July 1944 period when, according to most Holocaust historians, the great majority of newly arriving Hungarian Jews (some 400,000 in all) were promptly gassed and cremated.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v16/v16n4p-2_Okeefe.html (6450 words)

	Historical revisionism perseveres
		Mermelstein alleged that the very act of the IHR questioning details about the "Holocaust" was somehow injurious to Mermelstein because it was an "attempt [by the IHR] to rewrite a part of accepted history [in which Mermelstein], by virtue of his birth, was forced to play an agonizing role.
		Mermelstein complained that because he was a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust that the IHR and the other defendants should have known that the initial reward offer addressed to Mermelstein would cause emotional distress to Mermelstein.
		Mermelstein, the IHR learned, had given as many as 30 formally arranged lectures in the Los Angeles area, sometimes as many as two or three times a week, evidently relishing the opportunity to discuss publicly, time and again, what he claimed in his lawsuit had caused him so much distress.
	www.lermanet.com /cisar/carto/bw.htm (20666 words)

	Holocaust survivor Mel Mermelstein will speak at Cal State San Marcos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mermelstein’s lawsuit against a group that claimed the Holocaust was a hoax drew international attention in the 1980’s and was the subject of a 1991 movie.
		Mermelstein was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust.
		In July 1985, Mermelstein won the suit, was awarded a stipulated judgment against all answering defendants, and also received an official apology for the pain, anguish and suffering he and all Auschwitz survivors sustained from IHR’s $50,000 reward offer.
	www.csusm.edu /newsmedia/releases/0001/Mermelstein.htm (476 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: people/m/mermelstein.mel/mermelstein.text
		My aim is to show that Mel Mermelstein was paid $90,000 by the IHR et al.
		Mermelstein and other survivors of Auschwitz to suffer severe emotional distress which the Institute for Historical Review and Legion for Survival of Freedom, now recognize is regretable and abusive to survivors of Auschwitz.
		Mermelstein decided that he would strike back against the IHR and their Gestapo-type tactics.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/people/m/mermelstein.mel/mermelstein.text (2645 words)

	Best Witness -- Mel Mermelstein, Auschwitz and the IHR
		Thereupon Mermelstein sued the IHR for malicious prosecution, and with the help of his attorney, Jeffrey N. Mausner (formerly of the federal government's "Nazi-hunting" Office of Special Investigations), concocted an $11 million suit for four causes of action: libel, malicious prosecution, conspiracy to inflict emotional distress, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
		Whether Mermelstein is fibbing, to others or to himself; whether he has forgotten; or whether whatever he did experience has so deranged his mind as to render him incapable of rationally recounting the facts, his testimony proves nothing about the existence of Nazi gas chambers or a policy to exterminate Jews.
		Mermelstein tried to be crafty: he allowed that he might have lectured more than once at the same place -- not the most effective answer, but one that later might defuse the issue for an inattentive jury.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v14/v14n1p25_Okeefe.html (4656 words)

	reading & read \| cmr: June 2005
		The last small face you see on the top bunk to the far right is supposedly that of Mel Mermelstein, the author of By Bread Alone, which I bought while visiting the Auschwitz camp during my trip to Europe this last month.
		Mel Mermelstein was a young 17 years old and Jewish when his family was transported from the Czech Republic in 1944 and transported to camps.
		In the 1980s, Mel Mermelstein challenged a California-based Revisionist History group, who promised anybody that could prove gassing happened at Auschwitz would receive a $50,000 reward.
	cmr.webdiosa.com /reading/2005_06_01_cmrwebdiosa_archive.html (1684 words)

	Amazon.com: Never Forget: Video: Joseph Sargent,Leonard Nimoy,Dabney Coleman,Blythe Danner,Paul Hampton,Jason ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Leonard Nimoy as Mel Mermelstein, Paul Hampton as Richard Fusilier, Jason Presson as Bernie Mermelstein, Nicholas Fee as David Mermelstein, Benji Gregory as Kenny Mermelstein, Hanna Hertelendy as Elsie Smolena, David Margulies as Rabbi Hier, Thomas Bellin as Rabbi Cooper, Tracy Brooks Swope as Ms.
		When challenged by a hate group to prove that Jews were actually gassed at Auchwitz, Mel Mermelstein rises to the occasion with the support of his wife and children, in spite of the dangers to himself, his business, and his family.
		Mermelstein, showing a woman committed to supporting her husband, but torn when events occur that threaten the safety of her family as a whole.
	www.amazon.com /Never-Forget-Joseph-Sargent/dp/6302168422 (1400 words)

	Theodore O'Keefe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While working for the Institute for Historical Review, O'Keefe played an important role in defending the IHR against the legal assault of Mel Mermelstein, a California businessman who was interned in the Auschwitz camp during World War II.
		During the months leading up to the Mermelstein trial in September 1991, O'Keefe worked closely with IHR attorney William Hulsy, putting in hundreds of hours carefully researching and organizing documents, and reviewing testimony from Mermelstein relating to his complaints, his alleged damages, and his purported background and concentration camp experiences during the Second World War.
		Mermelstein, a wartime detainee of the camp, submitted a claim for the award, and then brought a lawsuit against the Institute on the grounds that it had not acted quickly enough on his claim.
	www.revisionists.com.cob-web.org:8888 /revisionists/okeefe.html (442 words)

	SPECIAL REPORT Embattled Bigots: A Split in the Ranks of the Holocaust Denial Movement ANT
		Mermelstein had sued the organization for failing to pay him a $50,000 "reward" it had offered for "proof" that the Nazis operated execution gas chambers at the concentration camps in WWII.
		Ironically, the Mermelstein case and other financial difficulties, such as a 1984 fire at IHR headquarters, are not responsible for the most serious problem facing the group.
		Carto, of course, denies the allegations against him and insists that the rebellious staff members were manipulated by "sinister forces," as he put it in a letter to Holocaust denier Arthur Butz.
	www.skepticfiles.org /almanac/adl-emba.htm (2237 words)

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		Mermelstein the 50,000$ reward it promised to anyone who can prove that people were gassed to death in Auschwitz.
		Others shot at the mass graves included newcomers who could not be pushed into the already overcrowded gas chambers, but who were too few in number to warrant the expense of a separate gassing operation.
		The revisionists sometimes claim that "no one was able to prove the existence of gas chambers for killing people in Auschwitz" and say that a 50,000$ reward will be given to the person who will supply the proof.
	www.shamash.org /holocaust/denial/answer-to-revisionists.txt (6311 words)

	Deniers in Revisionists Clothing
		The celebrated case of Mel Mermelstein versus the IHR is an excellent example of this issue.
		Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps of World War II, and a person who lost his father, mother and two sisters who also were inmates of Auschwitz;
		They know full well that the time is rapidly approaching when there will be no more Mel Mermelsteins, or Magda Herzbergers or Elie Wiesels to offer their unique eye-witness testimony.
	www.middleeast.org /forum/fb-public/1/4471.shtml (3230 words)

	Holocaust conference at Purdue promotes human rights
		Mel Mermelstein, Torrance, Calif., survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald concentration camps, and author of "By Bread Alone," will relate his Holocaust experiences and share his victory over Holocaust revisionists in legally proving that the Holocaust happened.
		Panelists: Mel Mermelstein, Ken Mochizuki, Robert Segal, Richard Weisberg and students Kimberly Jirkovsky, Stacie Meier, Chris Scott and Umang Sharma.
		NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Participants in the Holocaust Remembrance Conference, including Mel Mermelstein, Charlotte Opfermann and Richard Weisberg, will be introduced and available for comment at 3 p.m.
	www.purdue.edu /UNS/html3month/1998/980306.Engel.holocaust.html (772 words)

	The New American - Auschwitz-Birkenau: Slaughterhouses of the "Final Solution" - November 9, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unfortunately for IHR, Mermelstein also took the "reward" offer seriously, and had been the first to apply for it.
		(Wiesenthal eventually withdrew his application.) In response to the question, "Were you an eyewitness to the gassing operations?" Mermelstein filed an affidavit in which he testified of seeing his mother and two sisters being "driven into what I later discovered to be the gas chamber" at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
		It was after IHR reneged on its "reward" — which, as McCalden admitted, had not been offered in good faith — that Mermelstein filed his $17 million suit alleging "injurious denial of established fact." "Should we lose this case," McCalden informed IHR supporters in 1981, the Institute "is finished.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1998/vo14no23/vo14no23_auschwitz.htm (969 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bradley Smith, Holocaust Denial, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust survivor Mel Mermelstein, of Long Beach, California, took up the IHR challenge and submitted his evidence.
		When the IHR failed to comply with its Holocaust Denial Holocaust denial is a propaganda movement active in the United States, IHR by Mel Mermelstein, a Holocaust survivor living in Long Beach, California.
		Weber also claims that "Holocaust revisionists do not 'deny' the In July 1985, the IHR was ordered to pay Mel Mermelstein $90000 by the L.A. Mermelstein vs the institute for historical review In closing, Mel Mermelstein has written a book about the Holocaust.
	wikiafforg22.kniferrussia.org (254 words)

	Great Reads in Relation to the Holocaust
		Eventually the German government receives information that the Jewish Family is being hidden in Korinna's home, and at this point in the book she must decide what her beliefs are and who she should trust.
		Mel Mermelstein's whole immediate family was apart of the Holocaust, and he was the only one to survive.
		At just seventeen Mel was introduced to the horrible life of being a Holocaust victim.
	students.uwsp.edu /hjani736/soeportfolio/Module3.htm (914 words)

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		Mel Mermelstein is now proudly displaying "German soap made from human fat" at his "Holocaust museum" in Huntington Beach, Cal.
		That's the "big secret" about the Mermelstein case that the conspirators who illicitly seized control of the IHR on Oct. 1, 1993, have had a tough time explaining away, once the secret came out into the open.
		The ADL and the Church of Scientology apparently used the willing Mel Mermelstein (who probably had no idea of the Scientology connection) as a tool in their effort to destroy the revisionist movement and Liberty Lobby.
	www.lermanet.com /cisar/carto/md.htm (7159 words)

	Unusual Gifts : Never Forget
		A beautifully acted and written Movie about Mel M. and his family as they fight the Holocaust deniers.
		Mel Mermelstein, a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980's.
		In the movie "Never Forget", Leonard Nimoy portrays Holocaust survivor Mel Mermelstein, the only member of his family to have survived internment at the death camp at Auschwitz.
	www.theunusualgifts.com /never-forget_6302168422.html (143 words)

	www.REVISIONISTS.com -- David McCalden (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mel Mermelstein, a European-born southern California businessman, who had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, claimed the reward, but without offering any real proof.
		He then brought a lawsuit, which set off a protracted legal battle that generated great media attention, including a made-for-television movie, "Never Forget," that featured Leonard Nimoy as Mermelstein.
		(For more on this, see: "'Best Witness': Mel Mermelstein, Auschwitz and the IHR" and "History and 'Memory': An Examination of the Evidence of 'Holocaust Witness' Mel Mermelstein".
	www.revisionists.com.cob-web.org:8888 /revisionists/mccalden.html (598 words)

	Mel Mermelstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mel Mermelstein is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp who defeated a Institute for Historical Review in an American court and had the occurrence of the Holocaust declared a legally incontestable fact.
		In 1980, the Institute for Historical Review, promised a $50,000 reward to anyone who could prove Jews were gassed at Auschwitz.
		This page was last modified 13:14, 23 October 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mel_Mermelstein (454 words)

	Historical precedence vis-Ã_-vis the DALTON legal challenge [Archive] - JREF Forum
		Mel Mermelstein, a gentlemen with some familiarity of Nazi concentration camps applied for the reward (http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/denial/mervsIHR.txt) in 1980.
		Mermelstein sued them and won (http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/m/mermelstein.mel/mermelstein.order.072285) the $50,000 bucks, an apology, and another $40,000 for legal costs.
		I cannot see what the problem is, in this case the IHR lost, because Mermelstein did prove the holocaust.
	forums.randi.org /archive/index.php/t-27518.html (2395 words)

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