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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immigrants in, 78—79, 324 n

Jews in, 37—38, 156—57, 196, 204, 247—48, 288—93, 325 n

lampshade purchased in, 1, 43—45, 58, 63, 65, 69, 82, 109, 114, 116, 308

lampshade scavenged in, 2, 86—87

Lee Circle in, 191—94, 192, 197, 199

levee system of, 31, 80, 84, 200, 292, 307

Mardi Gras in, 35—36, 39—41, 47, 78, 94, 193, 291—92, 299, 305—8

Mickey Markey Park in, 35, 38, 82

Morial Convention Center in, 200, 249

Orleans Parish Prison in, 176, 179—84, 262, 324 n

politics in, 35—39, 306—7

Priestess Miriam’s spiritualist parlor in, 259

race mixing in, 36

race riots in, 195—98

St. Louis Cathedral in, 107, 309, 311

St. Roch in, 38

Saturn Bar in, 204, 205, 208

Superdome in, 249—50

Tulane Avenue in, 185—86

New Orleans (Hollywood musical), 189

New Orleans Daily States, 195—96

New Orleans Murder Blog, 187

New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), 39, 41, 77, 78, 177—78, 186, 196—201, 292, 321 n, 342 n

Antippas and, 206, 207

Charles and, 196, 197, 198

Duke and, 249

Essex and, 199

New Orleans Saints, 307

New Orleans Times-Democrat, 195, 197

New Orleans Times-Picayune, 37, 77—78, 84, 185, 306, 320 n —21 n, 324 n

New York City, 49—56, 58—65, 85, 303

Holocaust memorials and museums in, 111

Lincoln Center in, 203

Rosenberg in, 169

subway in, 64—65

see also Coney Island; Flushing, Queens

New York City Art Commission, 111

New York Daily News, 50, 66—67

New Yorker, 169—70

New York Police Department (NYPD), 66—67

New York Times, 108, 179, 237, 238

9/11, 56, 59—60, 66, 142, 190, 269, 306

1984 (Orwell), 107

Nixon, Richard, 104

“No Pardon for Ilse Koch” (newspaper article), 237

NPD (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands) , 223, 297, 298

NSDAP, 218, 297, 298

nucleotide DNA, 68, 69

Nuremberg Laws (1935), 227—28

Nuremberg trials, 12—13, 105—7, 106, 113, 129, 131, 140, 266, 322 n

Buchenwald Report and, 154

Hoven at, 236

testimony about soap at, 115—16

“Nur jedem das Seine!” (Bach’s 163rd cantata), 11

Obama, Barack, 302—3, 304, 312

Obersalzberg, 241—42

Office of the Medical Examiner, New York City (the morgue), 55—56, 58—59, 66

Ohrdruf, 104, 303

One Third of the Holocaust (video), 142

“Operation Harvest Festival,” 236

Or Else Is Here (Dominici), 262—63, 309

Orleans Parish, 183, 190

Orleans Parish Prison (OPP), 176, 179—84, 262, 324 n

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 157

Oswald, Marina, 146

Ottomeyer, Hans, 294

Ovid, 100

Palestine, 115, 256

Palestinians, 263, 269, 273, 278

“paper bag test,” 36

Park, Tongsun, 245

Parsifal (Wagner), 119

particularism vs. universalism, 122—24, 261—62

Patout, Peter, 77, 80

Patton, Charley, 23, 27

Patton, George, 92, 104, 120, 155, 214, 241, 302

“Paul, Mr.,” 258

Payne, Charles, 302—3

Pei, I. M., 127, 276

Peled-Carmeli, Haviva, 266—67

Pepys, Samuel, 100

Percy, Walker, 78

Perez, Leander, Sr., 243

Perkins, Anthony, 102

Phil Donahue Show (TV show), 147, 149—51, 322 n

Philistines, 99

Phnom Penh, 93

Pierce, William, 224

Plainfield, Wis., 102—3

Plaquemines Parish, 327 n

plastination, 101, 102

Plath, Sylvia, 70

Plessy, Homer, 195, 324 n

Plessy, Keith, 324 n

Plessy v. Ferguson, 324 n

Poland, Poles, 13, 19, 105, 115, 141, 214, 215, 239

Popeye’s, 81

pornography, 105, 133, 134, 324 n —25 n

post traumatic stress disorder, 127

Praeger, Frederick, 155—56

Praeger, Max, 155

Prague, 108

Priest, Warren, 120

Prima, Louis, 78, 189

prisoners of war, 19, 322 n

prisons, 14, 93, 131, 236, 237—38, 246, 308—9

Angola, 79—80, 179—80

OPP, 176, 179—84, 262, 324 n

tattoos in, 42, 320 n

Promised Land, The (Lemann), 319 n

Proteus Krewe, 36

Przyrembel, Alexandra, 232

Psalm 137, 239

Psycho (film), 102

Psychological Warfare Against Nazi Germany (Lerner), 146

race, 200, 249—50

race scientists, 225

racial discrimination, 195

Radical Republicans, 195

Raitt, Bonnie, 27, 219

Ramallah, 271, 272, 273

Ramirez, Hugo, 94, 258

Rangel, Charles, 303

Rascher, Sigmund, 13

Rassinier, Paul, 147—48

Real Men (film), 235

Rebennack, Mac (aka Dr. John the Night Tripper), 203—5, 208

Reich Central Office for the Fight Against the Gypsy Menace, 228

Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Kant), 162

Republican Party, 66, 243, 244

Resistance, French, 147, 158

Resnais, Alain, 158

Revel, Bernard, 128

Rhodes, Duplain W., Jr., 283

Rhodes, Duplain W., Sr., 283

Rhodes, Joan, 283, 286

Rhodes-Astorga, Kathleen, 283

Rhodes-Duncan, Sandra, 283

Rhodes family, 283, 284, 292

Rhodes-Navarre, Stephanie, 283—86

Ribowsky, Jen, 62

Ribowsky, Shiya, 56, 58—66, 63, 68, 70, 138, 190, 290, 293, 311—12

Riefenstahl, Leni, 232

RIF (Reichsstelle für Industrielle Fettversorgung; National Center for Industrial Fat Provisioning), 115

riots, 195—98, 303, 324 n

“Rivers of Babylon” (spiritual), 239—40

RJF (Reichs Juden Fett) , 115

“Robert Charles Riots,” 196—97

Robinson, Plater, 247, 311

Robinson, Sugar Ray, 47, 58

Rochester cathedral, 100

Rocking Daddy Juking on the Corner (R.D.J.C.), 28

Rödl, Arthur, 91, 92

Roemer, Buddy, 244

Röll, Wolfgang, 211—12, 212, 214, 217, 236, 304

Roma, 227—28

Romania, 93

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 244

Rose, Chris, 77

Rosenberg, Albert G., 153—71, 162, 325 n, 326 n

at Bergen-Belsen, 163

Denier Bud’s call to, 153—54

dreams of, 166, 168, 229

feminicidios and, 170

in Göttingen, 156, 164, 169, 170

intelligence officer’s identity card of, 165, 165

in New Orleans, 156—57

on no place to hide, 169—70

Semprún’s friendship with, 159—60, 323 n —24 n

SHAEF pass of, 164—65

as Walter Rosenfeld, 158—61, 231

Rosenberg, Henry, 163

Rosenberg, Lourdes, 162, 168—69, 170

Rothstein, Arnold, 169

Running Dog (DeLillo), 109

S-21 prison, 93

Sachsenhausen, 14, 15, 236

Safir, Howard, 66—67

Sagan, Carl, 61

St. Bernard Parish, 88, 175, 182, 183, 192, 203

St. Gabriel, La., 188—91, 281

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 130—32

Saladin, 206

Saltzman, Diane, 113—17, 121, 122, 134, 151, 230

Saul, 99

scalping, 100

Schilling, Klaus, 13

Schindler’s List (film), 112, 147

Schmuhl, Lorenz C., 130—32, 137, 166

Schmuhl, Robert, 132

Schneerson, Menachem Mendel, 264, 303

Schoenberg, Arnold, 134

Schoenberg, E. Randol, 134—35

Schoenberg, Mrs. E. Randol, 134

Schramm, Gert, 326 n, 327

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 247

science, 61, 66, 107

Scythians, 100

Second Crusade, 206, 207

segregation, 36, 195, 243, 249, 283, 303

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