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requests by an Atlanta author to feature
his memoirs at a book signing at the
Washington facility.
The reason: the book includes disputed
information about soap made from the
rendered fat of slain Jewish concentration
camp inmates.
Benjamin Hirsch,
an Atlanta architect,
insists the soap is
real, not a Holocaust
myth; historians at
the museum say the
issue is in doubt.
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"In my book, I quote verbatim from
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But the uncle's account can't be veri-
fied; Philipp Auerbach committed sui-
cide in 1952 after being accused of
fraud in East Germany, a charge that
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was later repudiated.
Hirsch has been arguing for the
veracity of human soap stories for sev-
eral decades. In the early 1970s, he
participated in a burial service in
Atlanta
for four bars of soap allegedly
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