[MacDonaill]

Where it belongs and if it should be destroyed is all up to the owner of the soap, if you ask me. He bought it. It belongs to him. I think the tasteful thing to do would be for the owner to donate or sell it to a museum.

I don't think it should be destroyed. I think it is a priceless artifact from a very important event in recent human history.

[RUEZ]

MacDonaill MacDonaill:

Where it belongs and if it should be destroyed is all up to the owner of the soap, if you ask me. He bought it. It belongs to him.

If it's real then no it doesn't belong to him. I don't think you can lay claim to someones unlawfully used remains.

[Mustang1]

The whole soap issue is a highly contentious issue within Holocaust studies (eg what extent = industrial vs. small-scale - and how the narrative was constructed in terms of memory, primary sources and wartime exaggeration/folkore). Without getting into the particulars, it is highly unlikely that this alleged piece of "Holocaust human soap" will be human and date to the Holocaust era. If it did, it would be a significant historical find.

[IlovUSandCanada]

$1:

If it's real then no it doesn't belong to him. I don't think you can lay claim to someones unlawfully used remains.

[MacDonaill]

RUEZ RUEZ:

MacDonaill MacDonaill:

Where it belongs and if it should be destroyed is all up to the owner of the soap, if you ask me. He bought it. It belongs to him.

If it's real then no it doesn't belong to him. I don't think you can lay claim to someones unlawfully used remains.

Whose remains would they be? Nobody would know. And if a private citizen can't lay claim to it, what gives the State the right to? What are they going to do, launch a Royal Commission to try and trace down who the human fat belonged to (if it indeed came from a single person) and ship the soap to the person's surviving relatives, if any?

If the soap is authentic, then it's a priceless artifact and if a government can exercise ownership over it, if an organisation such as a museum can own it, then there is no shred of law anywhere saying that a private citizen cannot.

If the State plans on expropriating the soap from this man, they can at least pay him the $300 he was offering to sell it for in his shop.

[BartSimpson]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

If it turns out to be the soap used today then this guy just a really wierd dude.

If it turns out to be made from hunan remains as some fear all the soap should be confiscated as is any evidence of a crime and Yad Vashem in Israel should be consulted as to what do do with the soap.

In any event this guy is certainly a wierd creep.

The Yad Vashem long ago said that the story about Jews being rendered into soap was a myth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_made_ ... an_corpses

If the guy is trying to sell this he should therefore be convicted of fraud.