Mark Jacobson - The Lampshade

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Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prisoners to makes common, everyday lampshades. In
, bestselling journalist Mark Jacobson tells the story of how he came into possession of one of these awful objects, and of his search to establish the origin, and larger meaning, of what can only be described as an icon of terror.
Jacobson’s mind-bending historical, moral, and philosophical journey into the recent past and his own soul begins in Hurricane Katrina–ravaged New Orleans. It is only months after the storm, with America’s most romantic city still in tatters, when Skip Henderson, an old friend of Jacobson’s, purchases an item at a rummage sale: a very strange looking and oddly textured lampshade. When he asks what it’s made of, the seller, a man covered with jailhouse tattoos, replies, “That’s made from the skin of Jews.” The price: $35. A few days later, Henderson sends the lampshade to Jacobson, saying, “You’re the journalist, you find out what it is.” The lampshade couldn’t possibly be real, could it? But it is. DNA analysis proves it.
This revelation sends Jacobson halfway around the world, to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where the lampshades were supposedly made on the order of the infamous “Bitch of Buchenwald,” Ilse Koch. From the time he grew up in Queens, New York, in the 1950s, Jacobson has heard stories about the human skin lampshade and knew it to be the ultimate symbol of Nazi cruelty. Now he has one of these things in his house with a DNA report to prove it, and almost everything he finds out about it is contradictory, mysterious, shot through with legend and specious information.
Through interviews with forensic experts, famous Holocaust scholars (and deniers), Buchenwald survivors and liberators, and New Orleans thieves and cops, Jacobson gradually comes to see the lampshade as a ghostly illuminator of his own existential status as a Jew, and to understand exactly what that means in the context of human responsibility.
One question looms as his search goes on: what to do with the lampshade—this unsettling thing that used to be someone? It is a difficult dilemma to be sure, but far from the last one, since once a lampshade of human skin enters your life, it is very, very hard to forget.

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Weingartner, James J. “Law and Justice in the Nazi SS: The Case of Konrad Morgen.” Central European History 16, no. 3 (September 1983): 276—94.

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire . New York: Signet, 1951.

Zwerin, Mike. La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing unter den Nazis . Vienna: Hannibal, 1985.

Selected Web References

Germany, past and present

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/faust.html Faust legends

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/mythlinks.html Germanic myths and legends

http://www.scrapbookpages.com Remarkably complete, marginally scholarly account of concentration camps. Often updated. Recommended.

http://www.buchenwald.de/index_en.html Official website for Buchenwald Memorial.

http://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de For information on neo-Nazi activity in the former GDR.

http://www.nsbm.org One of many National Socialist black metal music sites. For lyrics to Kommando Freisler’s hideous “In Belsen,” see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommando_Freisler .

Other Buchenwald information

http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/buchenwald/diplomatic/georges-vanier-042745.html

http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/appendix-8-01.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYVn0hzcSs0 Murrow’s speech

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/Exhibits.html

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=5198

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_fi.php?MediaId=160 Color film of the Weimar march and shots of the lampshade

Ilse Koch

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/evil-women-and-the-feminine

Holocaust museums and information

http://www.yadvashem.org

http://college.usc.edu/vhi USC Shoah Foundation Institute

http://www.ushmm.org United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html Recently opened Red Cross Holocaust files

DNA and forensic examinations

http://www.bodetech.com

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/forensics.shtml

http://www.globaloptions.com

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhamlin1/lombroso.html

Lampshade speculation, negative and positive

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2511/did-the-nazis-make-lampshades -out-of-human-skin

http://www.hlrecord.org/2.4462/books-bound-in-human-skin-lampshade-myth-1.579032

http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/appendix-5-03.html

Denier Bud’s videos

http://www.holocaustdenialvideos.com

New Orleans hoodoo

http://www.luckymojo.com/lucky-mojo-inventory.html

http://www.spellmaker.com/witch.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/07/10/findrelig.DTL

New Orleans Holocaust information

http://www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/holocaust_survivor_testimony.html

Race politics in New Orleans

http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n6_v57/ai_13773324

http://www.davidduke.com/general/my-awakening-chapter-15-the-jewish-question-2_135.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6389/is_n4_v85/ai_n28697772/?tag=content;col1

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14976/14976-h/14976-h.htm

http://www.wireheading.com/robert-heath.html

http://www.southerninstitute.info/index.jsp

http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/index.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uog-stm081106.php

New Orleans blogs

http://humidcity.com

http://neworleans.metblogs.com

http://www.yatpundit.com

http://neworleansmurderblog.blogspot.com

New Orleans cemetery theft

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20128078,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/us/new-orleans-grave-theft-nothing-s-sacred.html? sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

Report on Jerusalem syndrome

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/176/1/86#BDY

APPENDIX

INDEX Page num - фото 59
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INDEX Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations Aaron 275 325 n Abu - фото 62

INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Aaron, 275, 325 n

Abu Ghosh, 271

Adler, Rabbi, 52—55, 62

African Americans, 245, 302—4, 326 n

hangings of, 198—99, 202

in New Orleans, 30—31, 36—39, 180, 193, 195—99, 209—10, 249, 283, 291—92, 306

northern migration of, 26

African mythologies, 25

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy project, 207—8

Aichach prison, 237—38

Aktion Reinhard camps, 142

Al-Aqsa Mosque, 269, 270

Al-Jazeera, 250

Almog, Joseph, 267

Amadeu Antonio Foundation, 213, 324 n

“America First” isolationism, 148

American Mercury, 148—49

Angola Prison, 79—80, 179—80

Antarctica, 120, 322 n

anti-antifa, 223—24, 298

Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 123

antifa (antifascist left-wing youth), 223—24, 298

Antippas, Andy, 205—7

anti-Semitism, 53, 142, 149, 241, 263, 324 n

see also specific topics

Antonio, Amadeu, 213

Apitz, Bruno, 221

Apollo, 99—100

Argentina, Doña, 1—4, 124, 259

Armitage, Richard, 66

Armstrong, Louis, 38, 189

Army, U.S., 16, 50, 51, 53—54, 120, 163, 216, 241, 302—3, 321 n

in liberation of Buchenwald, 17, 19, 145, 214

Psychological Warfare Division of (PWD), 145—46, 153, 167—68

art dealers, 77, 79, 80, 205—7

Arts and Crafts in the Third Reich (Hirschberger), 70

Aryan Brotherhood, 79—80, 246

Ashcroft, John, 66

Assyrians, 100

astronauts, 28—29, 320 n

Audubon Nature Institute, 35, 38

Auschwitz, 11, 59, 103, 123, 134, 149, 155, 169—70, 190, 295, 326 n

crematorium at, 151, 252

liberation of, 303

Pappo Strauss at, 227, 228

Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in, 228

Austria, 120, 134, 247, 252

Austrian Jews, 91

autopsies, 13, 101, 207

Avery, Daniel, 114—15

Babineaux, Alvin, 174, 175

Babineaux, Dani Dominici, 173—77, 179, 182

Bahamut, 206

Barger, Sonny, 109

Barnes, Harry Elmer, 148

Bartel, Walter, 217

Bartholomew, Bobby, 83—84

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