Bernard Brougham

Bernard Brougham (also known as Bernard Holstein) is the author of the 2004 book Stolen Soul. It claimed to be "the amazing true story of survival and mateship in Auschwitz" and "an epic read full of stories of how Bernard underwent experiments, assisted the Underground and even escaped, only to be recaptured and subjected to even greater torture".

Germar Rudolf has stated that "at the end of October 2004 the lies of the Australian Bernard Brougham, alias Bernard Holstein, were exposed when the publisher, University of Western Australia Press, pulled copies of his book Stolen Soul from bookshops after a private investigator was called in to probe the author’s background (Holstein 2004). Brougham had claimed that as a nine-year-old Jew (!) at Auschwitz he was subjected to medical experiments, that he belonged to the resistance, and that he had fled and was caught and tortured. His adopted family reported to his publisher that Brougham was neither born in Germany nor was he a Jew. The detective discovered that Brougham was born in Australia and baptized a Roman Catholic in 1942 (Madden/Kelly 2004). The reaction to such revelations is typical (Singer 2004a&b): “Publisher Judy Shorrock […] was still ‘shocked’ by the revelations and fears the incident may incite Holocaust denial. ‘I have spent three years working on this book. I am devastated… that it could damage the credibility of the Holocaust – that just makes me feel sick,’ she said."

External links

• Lectures on the Holocaust—Controversial Issues Cross Examined - discusses Bernard Brougham in section 4.4. "Testimonies in Literature and Media"
• Holocaust man's claims queried

Note that besides the external sources listed here, an alleged Holocaust confessor/witness may be extensively discussed in the external sources listed in the articles on the particular Holocaust camps and/or other Holocaust phenomena the individual is associated with.