forasanerworld wrote:11) If the Jews were evacuated "to the East" rather than being exterminated in Poland, what happened to them? Why have so many family members of those "evacuated" never heard from their loved ones again? Wouldn't they try to make some contact in the past 70+ years?
Here's a point on that, made contact a couple years ago:
Holocaust Survivor, 102, Meets Nephew He Never Knew He Had
Eliahu Pietruszka thought his brother, Volf, who was the visitor’s father, had died in a labor camp after losing contact with him following the murder of their brother and parents in the Holocaust
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/holocaust-survivor-102-meets-nephew-he-never-knew-he-had-1.5722231
A young man in Warsaw fled to Russia leaving twin younger brothers and parents. One brother also fled to Russia and the two initially had contact bu they lost contact and the older brother assumed he had died in a Gulag (also assuming of course the other had been murdered). Having migrated to Israel contact was eventually established; of course although one brother had obviously not been murdered by the Russians the rest remained assumed murdered by the Germans, cognitive dissonance I'd call it.
Good point, it's an argument from ignorance anyway. Just because one doesn't know what happened to X, doesn't make a disputed proposition about X valid. Can't count the time I've heard arguments of that kind. They go like this:
- "Where are the six million Jews, if they haven't been gassed" or
- "What happened to the Jews then, if they weren't exterminated
The underlying assertion is: You can't prove what happened to those Jews
The false conclusion is: That this somehow proves that they were gassed.