WATCH: Candace Owens peddles lie connecting Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to Epstein ring

Her claim about Wiesel being Maxwell’s cousin traces to a single, vague reference in a 1988 authorized biography of Robert Maxwell by British journalist Joe Haines.

By Jewish Breaking News

Serial conspiracy theorist Candace Owens turned her antisemitic focus to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, spreading debunked claims that the Nobel laureate fabricated his concentration camp experiences and was secretly related to Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

In the 45-minute episode of her latest video series examining Epstein’s crimes, Owens alleged that Wiesel stole the identity of an Auschwitz survivor and was the cousin of Maxwell’s father, publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell.

“So, who is this Elie, Elie Wiesel, who allegedly steals this identity?” Owens said. “Who steals identities, no less, and then makes up these stories—which, by the way, it is confirmed, the fictionalized stories in his book Night. Well, as I’ve told you guys before, Elie Wiesel was the cousin of Robert Maxwell. … And therefore,” she added, “Elie Wiesel becomes a very curious piece of the Epstein story.”

Owens based her impostor claims on a 2006 book by Nikolaus Grüner, an Auschwitz survivor who alleged Wiesel had stolen the identity of someone named “Lazar Wiesel.”

Her claim about Wiesel being Maxwell’s cousin traces to a single, vague reference in a 1988 authorized biography of Robert Maxwell by British journalist Joe Haines. Haines, who died in February, described Wiesel as a “distant relative,” according to The Dispatch Fact Check.

Both men were born in neighboring towns in what was then Czechoslovakia – Maxwell in Solotvyno and Wiesel in nearby Sziget (now Sighetu Marmației, Romania) and both lost family members in the Holocaust.

However, no evidence exists of any family connection between the Nobel Peace Prize winner who died in 2016 and the disgraced media mogul.

Disturbingly, Owens also dismissed Auschwitz as merely a “Polish work camp,” and attempted to discredit Wiesel’s account of being marked with identification number A-7713, in spite of photographic evidence of the tattoos made infamous by the Nazis.

In reality, Wiesel’s life and experiences are among the most thoroughly documented and corroborated in Holocaust history.

Born in Sighet, Romania, in 1928 to a Jewish family, Wiesel was deported to Nazi concentration camps as a teenager during World War II, where he lost his parents and younger sister.

After liberation, he studied in Paris, became a journalist, and eventually moved to the United States where he became a professor at Boston University.

Wiesel is best known for his memoir “Night,” which chronicles his harrowing experiences in Auschwitz and Buchenwald and became one of the most influential Holocaust testimonies ever written.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his lifelong dedication to human rights activism and Holocaust education, establishing him as one of the world’s most respected moral voices until his passing.