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The Holocaust:
Denial & History
The Nazi Holocaust claimed the lives of between 5 and 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945. Since then, a small group of Holocaust deniers have lied about and minimized this history by deliberately manipulating historical evidence as part of an ideological and racist agenda.
Learning Tools:
Myths & Facts
Holocaust deniers freely distort the historical record in order to justify anti-Semitism, racism and fascism. These tools help the novice and expert alike analyze denier claims and refute them with historical evidence including primary-source documents and both Nazi and survivor testimony.
Irving v. Lipstadt:
Denial on Trial
In 1996 British Holocaust denier David Irving sued professor Deborah Lipstadt for alleged libel. Three courts found for Lipstadt concluding that Irving was a Holocaust denier, an anti-Semite and a racist. The unedited trial documents found below document this important victory for truth and history.
Continuing Effort: News & Updates
Holocaust denial suffered a sharp blow as a result of the Irving v. Lipstadt trial, however deniers and so-called "revisionists" continue to publicize their ideologically skewed version of history. We provide up-to-date news, links and resources on denial and its continued impact on culture.
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Holocaust Denial in the News
No ‘Finking’ Allowed: Facing the Facts About Norman Finkelstein New University Online, CA - May 12, 2008 His work elicited praise from anti-Semites and Holocaust-deniers, such as David Irving and the Institute for Historical Review. Many scholars harbor disdain ... |
Holocaust Site Receives Claims Conference Grant Media Newswire (press release), NY - May 6, 2008 Holocaust Denial on Trial chronicles Lipstadt's 1996-2000 British trial versus Holocaust denier David Irving. In 1996 he sued Lipstadt in British court ... |
Digital World: For a Holocaust wiki Jerusalem Post, Israel - Apr 29, 2008 According to Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, "There is tremendous ignorance about the Holocaust, people who don't know what the Holocaust is. ... |
Highlights
In Development! Arabic Myth/Fact Sheets
HDOT is proud to offer our readers a sneak peak at Arabic language translations of our Myth/Fact sheets. While we are still translating and posting new sheets, these crucial documents will provide solid historical evidence to counter the Holocaust denial that is rampant in the Arabic-speaking world.
Deborah's blog: lipstadt.blogspot.com
Thoughts on Irena Sendler and on Not Knowing What I Would Have Done, May 13, 2008 - Deborah Lipstadthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.com
In my post on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising [notes from the speech I gave at the Sami Rohr Prize presentation in Jerusalem] I have been having an exchange with Roman Werpachowski, a Polish reader who believes the Warsaw Ghetto fighters were wrong to have fought to the end.He believes that, since they knew they were going to die fighting, it would have been better for them to escape and lived. He makes a legitimate point but I am not sure if he is right.
But that is not the issue between us.
When I quoted Irena Sendler in the previous post on the bravery of Jewish mothers, those who were willing to give up their children to a stranger with no guarantee of the child's safety, I knew that I did not know what I would have done.
And I thought back to my exchange with this reader in which he delcares that he would have escaped. My issue with him has been that I simply don't know what I would have done in that situation:
Fought to the death?I don't know and I don't believe anyone else can know precisely what they would have done -- until they are in that position.
Stayed with my family who might have needed my help?
Escaped to the other side knowing that it would result in my family's immediate deportation to a death camp?
Sat paralyzed with fright?
Funny thing, when I was younger I knew exactly what I would have done.....
May we never find out.