More about Mel Mermelstein! I love the name Mel. It means loyal friend. Mel Mermelstein is a loyal friend to truth. He defended it valiantly in memory of all who lost their lives in the gas chambers of Auschwitz!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Mermelstein
On October 9, 1981, both parties in the Mermelstein case filed motions for summary judgment in consideration of which Judge Thomas T. Johnson of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County took "judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944,"[1][2] judicial notice meaning that the court treated the gas chambers as common knowledge, and therefore did not require evidence that the gas chambers existed. On August 5, 1985, Judge Robert A. Wenke entered a judgment based upon the Stipulation for Entry of Judgment agreed upon by the parties on July 22, 1985.
The judgment required IHR and other defendants to pay $90,000 to Mermelstein and to issue a letter of apology to "Mr. Mel Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald, and all other survivors of Auschwitz" for "pain, anguish and suffering" caused to them.[2]
In a pre-trial determination, Judge Thomas T. Johnson declared:
"This court does take judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944. It is not reasonably subject to dispute. And it is capable of immediate and accurate determination by resort to sources of reasonably indisputable accuracy. It is simply a fact."[2]
So Mel Mermelstein won a $90,000.00 settlement years ago for the pain and anguish caused over holocaust deniers and revisionists who claim the gas chambers didn't exist. He also proved in a court of law that the gas chambers did exist and the liars were forced to make an apology.
Steinlight will be the next to apologise I am sure. - Jeri