Moshe Peter Loth moved the world as a former guardian illness in the concentration camp where he was born, during the trial against him • New revelations raise serious doubts about his life story

• Moshe Peter Luth enters Hamburg courtroom // Photo: AP

Question marks around one of the most exciting stories related to the Holocaust in recent years: Moshe Peter Luth, captured the headlines last November when he publicly forgave a former guard in the SS concentration camp. "Look at everyone, I'm going to forgive him," Luth told those in Hamburg, Germany, before going to the podium and hugging the Nazi guard on trial.

The moment was particularly exciting in light of Luth's background, now a Florida resident. He told reporters that his grandmother and mother were kept in the Stutthof camp during the Holocaust, and that he himself was born in the camp. The suspect on the stand, 93-year-old Bruno Day, was a guard at Stutthof.

Bruno Day in Germany Court // Photo: AFP

But now, facts become evident that cast doubt on the boy's exciting story of Holocaust survivors who forgave the Nazis. In light of these details, Day's trial was dismissed for fear that Luth, who was a witness for the prosecution, invented chapters in his life story. In fact, the facts indicate that Luth was born into a Christian family and was never in the Stutthof camp.

Luth told his story in 2005 to a Christian missionary group in Germany and to The Othello Outlook website in 2012. He also wrote an autobiography with author Sandra Klug Rath, entitled "Peace by Piece." Luth, who submitted documents to Yad Vashem claiming that his grandmother died in cells The exiles in the Stutthof camp, speaking at Holocaust ceremonies, talking about his past and presenting himself as a Jewish survivor.

Moshe Peter Luth // Photo: AFP

However, Spiegel magazine reported late last month that Luth was born to a Protestant German family near Gdansk. His grandmother died in 1943, but not in a Nazi camp. His lawyer told the magazine that Luth, got the impression that his grandmother had died in the camp and would correct his testimony at Yad Vashem.

According to information provided to the JTA from the Stutthof Archives, the Arolzen Archives at the International Center for the Study of Nazi Persecution, the Yad Vashem Archives and the National Holocaust Museum in the United States, the woman Shloth claimed was his mother, Helen Anna Flood, was released from the camp a month after being imprisoned and several months before Shloth was born. .

The Hamburg court affirmed Louth to be one of the prosecution witnesses to investigate Day, who claimed in his testimony that he had not volunteered to be a soldier and guard in Stutthof and that he was amazed at what had happened there.