Category Archives: Holocaust

Forward: ‘Is 15 Minutes Enough Time For Trump At Yad Vashem?’

How much time should American presidents be required to spend at Yad Vashem? (Forward) American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …In the late sixties and early seventies, at the same time that … Continue reading

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Mark Oppenheimer: ‘My lesson in free speech: As a Jew, meeting with Holocaust deniers actually left me feeling empowered’

Mark writes an Op/Ed in the LA Times: In 2009, I interviewed Mark Weber and Bradley Smith, two amateur historians notorious for being among the leading Holocaust “revisionists.” Smith is an old-school denier, dubious about the existence of gas chambers, … Continue reading

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Denial (2016)

I enjoyed this movie. “Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.” Deborah Lipstadt is portrayed by a beautiful actress … Continue reading

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White Supremacist Cheers Trump’s ‘De-Judification’ of Holocaust

The Forward writes: Richard Spencer, the leading ideologue of the “alt-right,” Donald Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism was an important, perhaps revolutionary, step. Spencer dubbed it the “de-Judification” of the Holocaust. Jewish activists, … Continue reading

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WP: ‘The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.’ Museum condemns alt-right meeting.

How many ways is this story ridiculous? Washington Post: Just south of the national Mall, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum stands as a grim reminder of what the Nazis did. Directly across the Mall from the museum, white nationalists were … Continue reading

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