ADAMSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 91-year-old Pennsylvania man who has for years lectured to school groups and others about what he said were his experiences at Auschwitz now says he was never a prisoner at the concentration camp.
Joseph Hirt made the admission in a letter to LNP newspaper (http://bit.ly/28XFmgJ ) Wednesday and apologized. He said he used poor judgment and faulty reasoning in trying to tell the story of those affected by the Nazis.
The Adamstown man’s admission comes weeks after Hirt’s story of escaping from Auschwitz was questioned by history teacher Andrew Reid in Turin, New York.
Reid attended an April presentation by Hirt in upstate New York with several students. He concluded that many of the speaker’s claims didn’t add up.
Reid says Hirt called him and apologized earlier this month.
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Information from: LNP, http://lancasteronline.com
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Strange. Why would anyone claim they were in a concentration camp? Did he have a numbered tattoo? If he did he must have faked that too. Its like those people that fake having cancer to elicit sympathy, even to the point of shaving their hair off to pretend they lost it to chemotherapy. Did he get paid speaking fees? Sounds a little like Munchhausen by Proxy in a way…Too weird.
In related news, Hirt’s wife, Morgan Fairchild, is leaving him to marry me.