I’m pretty new around here, and have followed this thread on and off, but have hesitated on posting anything. Please excuse me if this is a derail at all. A little background history on me… I was born in the Midwest and no reside in the South. Was raised Catholic, but have become a Baptist since relocating. I have no strong feelings on Jewish people, though I don’t agree with how Isreal was established (not that I have any alternate ideas either, mind you!), and I disagree with their actions periodically. I say all this to avoid the “Zionist” label that gets thrown around here a lot.
My interest in this thread comes from my father’s history. He was born in Hungary in 1933, and so did a lot of growing up during WW2 and saw much firsthand. He lived southwest of Budpest in a small village outside a town named Szekesfehervar. He talks about how in the later part of the war the Germans occupied his area and that many people we sent off to camps (no idea which one/ones). His family was Catholic, but they knew several Jewish families. In the deportations, those families were sent away, as was the family of his best friend (The father was a doctor, respected in the area, and anti-Nazi. The family was father, mother, older sister and dad’s friend). Of the people he personally knew (8-10 families, maybe 30-35 people tops), the only ones that returned were the older sister of his friend and 3 family friends that lived just up the road from them.
His friend’s sister told him that shortly after they arrived at the camp, the other members of the family were taken away (including the boy), and never seen again. The sister had no idea why she was not taken as well. This same type of story was related by the other family friends as well. Keep in mind, the people that did not return all had homes and property still waiting there. (Most of this was family land that had been theirs for generations)
My question is, for those that think that the holocaust is a hoax, where did the people go if they weren’t killed? In know we’re talking a tiny sample size compared to the totals, but if only 3 of the 35 or so that my dad knew ever came back (and the others were never heard from again), what supposedly became of them? I can think of no explanation that fits the reality, other than that they were killed as my father told.