I just watched this testimony, and this lady sounds convincing in a sense that she is calm, and seems to believe this. (does not matter she reads)
If you believe that something happened you will not act and look like Dario Gabbai where it is so obvious that you lie. I believe you will look like this. If I didn't know that chimneys do not spit fire I would believe her story.
One more thing that would (maybe) make me question her story is description of how Germans treated these people. I mean, you can have one really sick person that does these things, but to have many that would do this for days seems very unbelievable to me. Or maybe I am just naive to think humans are incapable of this, on this systematic emotionless way?
Anyway, I wanna share somethng I experienced today. I made a video where I described event that happened more than 25 years ago, when I was just a kid. In story I told there was this other kid that did something, and whole story was about that. I uploaded it on facebook and I tagged him so he could have good laugh, and I also asked does he remember this?
After I got few likes I started to doubt that it was even him that did this, and there was a possibility that it was this other kid that did this. I panicked because it would be really dumb if I tagged wrong guy. Fortunately it was him, and he remembered with even more details that I forgot. I felt relief. Reason I had this doubt was because two of them were very similar in looks, and we would hang out every day so it wasn't very clear to me after I did some thinking and confused myself in the process.
Also, there was this detail with a gun in this story. He told me that this guy that was chasing us has a gun. Now, I never saw this gun in his hand, and I now believe he said that just to scare me, but what is interesting is that when I pull this memory out of my head and look at it then I clearly see this gun. It is strange...
Also, he does not even remember this gun or that he even said that to scare me.
I don't think she saw open burning pits or chimneys with flames. I think that is just product of stories she later heard, and now repeats with difference that she actually believes this happened to her. I think she was just working in the camp and didn't really see anything of this sort.
This also made me very sad in one moment because I realised how fragile we are, and how our minds can play tricks on us.
I have one question. Have you ever seen testimony that does not have impossible details in it? Like, something really convincing that you thought how this person is not making stuff up?
