A DNA test could not distinguish between the genetic material left by the casual handler, Kolman said, and material left by a human ingredient. This will not silence the believers in German fiendishness, as little as the Shroud of Turin analysis satisfied or silenced the believers in that cloth being the burial shroud of Christ. That limitation doesn't upset everyone. Rabbi Feldman, who conducted the Atlanta burial service for the bars of soap in 1970, was recently contacted in Israel via e-mail. Photo Architect Ben Hirsch kneels by the Atlanta burial site of bars of soap supposedly made from the bodies of Holocaust victims.
Most experts believe they are just ordinary soap.