Martin Gray
Martin Gray (born 1922 as Mieczysław Grajewski) was an alleged prisoner at several Holocaust camps, a "witness" for the politically correct view on the Holocaust, and an author of the autobiographical book For Those I Loved. The book includes descriptions of his alleged Holocaust experiences. Gray’s alleged life has also been put on film. again titles For Those I Loved. The film was broadcast as a mini-series during the 1980s in Europe.
Even the politically correct Holocaust writer Gitta Sereny has dismissed Gray’s book as a forgery, in a 1979 article in New Statesman magazine. She wrote that the book was the work of Max Gallo, a ghostwriter: "During the research for a Sunday Times inquiry into Gray's work, M. Gallo informed me coolly that he ‘needed’ a long chapter on Treblinka because the book required something strong for pulling in readers. When I myself told Gray, the ‘author,’ that he had manifestly never been to, nor escaped from Treblinka, he finally asked, despairingly, ‘But does it matter? Wasn't the only thing that Treblinka did happen, that it should be written about, and that some Jews should be shown to have been heroic?’"[1]
Polish daily Nowiny Rzeszowskie (The Rzeszów News) in 1990 published an interview with World War II Captain Wacław Kopisto, a soldier of the elite Polish Cichociemni unit, who took part in a raid on the National Socialist prison in Pińsk in 1943. Kopisto was shown the wartime photograph of Martin Gray (a.k.a. Mieczysław Grajewski) and said that he never saw this person in his life before. However, Gray himself described his alleged participation in the same raid in his book For Those I Loved. Kopisto stated, when asked about any Jewish person in his unit alluding to Gray, that among the sixteen Polish soldiers in his partisan group there was in fact a Polish Jew from Warsaw by the name of Zygmunt Sulima, his own long-term friend and colleague after the war. No man like the one in the photograph of Gray ever belonged to their unit; Kopisto said: "For the first time in my life I saw Martin Gray in a 1945 photo, which was published in March 1990 in Przekrój magazine (...) There were only sixteen of us participating in the 1943 Pińsk raid, and he was not among us."[2]
References
- ↑ Sereny, Gitta. "The Men Who Whitewash Hitler" New Statesman, Vol. 98, No. 2537, 2 November 1979, pp. 670-73.
- ↑ Jacek Stachiewicz interview with Major Wacław Kopisto (August 2, 1990), "Kim jest Martin Gray?" (Who is Martin Gray) Nowiny Rzeszowskie (The Rzeszów News daily), Nr 163, 1990, p. 9 of scanned document, Scribd Inc. Also at: Polish daily Nowiny Rzeszowskie, DJVU Lizardtech viewer. Nr 162-183. Podkarpacka Digital Library.
