By Hadding Scott ∙ December 31, 2016
Monday through Thursday this week Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies has been hosting a conference, attended by about 200 Jewish educators, titled: “The Shoah and Jewish Identity: Challenges in Jewish Education.” (J. Sharon, Jerusalem Post, 28 December 2016) The consensus is that the Holocaust is now an important part of the Jewish identity….
By David Merlin ∙ December 30, 2016
It has been 3 months since the opening, but Denial, David Hare's screenplay about the Irving v. Lipstadt trial, can now be classified as a flop. Despite the draw of names like Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, and Timothy Spall, the results for Weekend Number 12, December 16-18, are in and are dismal. The movie-tracking company Box Office…
By Hadding Scott ∙ December 29, 2016
The Norwegian public broadcasting network NRK has published a satirical cartoon that makes humorous and irreverent references to the Holocaust. This particular cartoon happens also to be the opener in the annual best-of collection from NRK's Satiriks. The topic of the cartoon is the difficulty that university students face in finding decent and affordable housing. Two white students and a…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ December 26, 2016
Alison Chabloz has been suddenly called back from Manchester with only one days notice, because the Prosecution wishes to redefine the terms of her bail. A week earlier, she had turned up for a rather strange indeed unheard-of type of prosecution. A Campaign against Anti-Semitism had decided a song of hers violated Section 127 of the…
By Jett Rucker ∙ December 22, 2016
It’s definitely the Flap of the Month: a month ago, if you Googled “Did the Holocaust really happen?” you got the usual list of a billion or so hits, with the top (first) position occupied by the Web site of Stormfront, which carries an article claiming that “it” didn’t “happen.” A solid hit as to…
By Hadding Scott ∙ December 20, 2016
A prominent and respected Egyptian journalist, Salah Montasser, wrote an article based on an interview with some unidentified critic of Holocaust propaganda, wherein it is stated that the number of Jews killed directly or indirectly by Hitler's government was much less than the claimed 6 million. The six-million claim was invented to counter the fame that…
By David Merlin ∙ December 17, 2016
The recovery of the Rosenberg Diary was announced with great fanfare in June 2013. The documents had been stolen from the Court records of the Nuremberg Tribunal by the notorious Robert Kempner, aka the Thief of Nuremberg. After years of searching, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice recovered 425 loose pages covering the period from Spring 1936 to Winter 1944. United…
By Jan Markiewicz, Wojciech Gubała, Jerzy Łabędź ∙ December 17, 2016
ABSTRACT: In a widespread campaign to deny the existence of extermination camps with gas chambers the “revisionists” have recently started using the results of the examinations of fragments of ruins of former crematoria. These results (Leuchter, Rudolf) allegedly prove that the materials under examination had not been in contact with cyanide, unlike the wall fragments…
By Hadding Scott ∙ December 15, 2016
The Israeli Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, compiles information about alleged victims of the Holocaust, with the obvious purpose of substantiating the alleged extent of mass-murder against Jews during the Second World War, but with the paradoxical result that some people presumed killed in the Holocaust turn out not to have been killed. Such an instance came to…
By David Merlin ∙ December 14, 2016
If you are looking for a good book to give as a Christmas present I would recommend Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. The book is, as the title suggests, a very readable account of events surrounding the last Winston Churchill voyage of the Lusitania. The Lusitania was the Cunard Line ocean liner…
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