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January 16, 2008

Holocaust survivor opens exhibition

Frank Bright survived the gas chambers by pure luck. He said: "I was lucky, nothing else." Deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia in October 1944 Frank and his mother found themselves at the extermination camp — its name now...

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December 12, 2007

A Gitmo trial beats judgment at Nuremberg

By Audrey Hudson - Nearly 100 foreign enemy combatants to be tried at Guantanamo Bay will have more rights than Nazi war criminals who faced the Nuremberg tribunal, a Senate panel was told yesterday. Detainees in the war on terror...

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August 12, 2007

Another life cut tragically short by the Nazis

Holocaust survivor remained an optimist and an idealist

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August 5, 2007

Meticulous records, but no proof of Nazi gas chambers

Holocaust files have limits.

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July 20, 2007

Tens of thousands of European Jews fled to Palestine

They arrived before the formation of the State of Israel.

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July 19, 2007

Nazi Germany needed Jews alive and well

List held key to Holocaust survivor's life.

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June 1, 2007

Another life cut tragically short by the Nazis

'Be happy' says 100-year-old holocaust survivor.

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May 14, 2007

What didn't we know, and when didn't we know it?

Md. Holocaust Survivor Makes a Point of Speaking Out

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December 23, 2006

First the Holocaust, then the Red Cross

Students learn about Holocaust

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November 10, 2006

Another life cut tragically short by the Nazis

George Preston, 92; survived Holocaust

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July 16, 2006

More doubt cast on the Holocaust death toll

Jan T. Gross' new book is a searing indictment of Poland's murder of its Jewish residents in the years after World War II.

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May 18, 2006

Holocaust victims list updated

(JTA) - Germany published a new list of its citizens who were killed in the Holocaust. The new register, published May 7, updates the first edition, from 1986, which listed only victims from the former West Germany. The new...

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May 10, 2006

Another child survives the Holocaust

Holocaust Survivor Challenges Students to End Prejudice [...] Now a resident of Pomona, Gabrielle Silten was arrested by the Nazis in June 1943 along with her parents and grandmother, and transported to a Nazi concentration camp in Westbork, Holland. Silten...

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December 24, 2005

It's okay to be a Jewish murderer

Holocaust 'avengers' recount deadly deeds.

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November 4, 2005

The Myth of Hitler's Pope

Hitler's Pope Story a Myth, Rabbi Finds by David Klinghoffer 2005-11-04 http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14887 "The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews From the Nazis" by Rabbi David G. Dalin (Regnery, $27.95). In "The Myth of Hitler's Pope,"...

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October 7, 2005

Not just human, but scholars, too

NSA report calls Holocaust deniers, scholars A National Security Agency report labels Holocaust deniers as "scholars and researchers" -- causing some to demand the report be recalled Friday, October 07, 2005 http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=128&id=1986 A National Security Agency report labels Holocaust deniers...

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October 6, 2005

Maybe the camps weren't that bad

Holocaust survivor speaks at WHS By Danielle Masterson/ Correspondent Thursday, October 6, 2005 http://www2.townonline.com/wakefield/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=337986 The last time Sonia Weitz spoke to her mother, she promised the older woman she would tell of the horrors of the Holocaust. [...] After a...

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September 20, 2005

Another life cut tragically short by the Nazis

SWC News Items Simon Wiesenthal: 'The Conscience of the Holocaust, Dies in Vienna' at 96 September 20, 2005 http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/nl/content.asp? c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=312458 &content_id={3F90833B-C57B-42B7-BB2B-9876E0C87E89} &notoc=1 Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi Hunter has died in Vienna at the age of 96, the Simon...

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September 19, 2005

Another child survivor

Holocaust survivor tells Monday, September 19, 2005 By Amy K. Stewart Standard-Examiner staff http://www2.standard.net/standard/news/62488/ Woman wrote children's book, to speak at schools When Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan was 11 years old, she had already endured six years of...

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June 10, 2005

Germans let saboteurs live

Glimpse into Holocaust shared through eyes of survivor By Diane C. Beaudoin June 10, 2005 http://www.townsendtimes.com/ ASHBY -- Fourth-graders at the Ashby Elementary School heard first-hand from a Holocaust survivor what it was like living and working in the German...

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May 4, 2005

He's a Jew, a survivor, AND a Nazi

Holocaust Survivor Kurzem Finds Cousin By DAVID HAMMER The Associated Press Wednesday, May 4, 2005; 7:36 AM http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0505/225664.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- After seeing his mother and siblings shot to death by Nazis, 5-year-old Ilya Solomonovich Galparin went into survival...

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February 24, 2005

Another family back from the dead

Photo reunites cousins separated by Holocaust Charlotte Observer Metro Editor On Television Posted on Wed, Feb. 23, 2005 A 67-year-old black and white photograph has brought healing and new family to a Durham man. For years, Fred Hertz, 83, thought...

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February 6, 2005

Survivors went every which way

Reunited after 61 years A match of Holocaust stories helps two sisters separated since 1944 find each other after going through the hardships of war to reach Israel By Steven Erlanger New York Times News Service February 6, 2005...

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January 25, 2005

Look who's obsessed with the Holocaust

For Israel, the wounds of the Holocaust remain fresh RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, January 25, 2005 http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/ archive/2005/01/25/international1429EST0642.DTL (01-25) 11:29 PST JERUSALEM (AP) -- Though it ended six decades ago, the Holocaust remains a fresh trauma here, a...

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Yet another survivor

Who were the Holocaust victims?

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January 14, 2005

Nazis! Nazis! Nazis!

Our overuse of the term 'holocaust' belittles the true horror of Nazism Notebook by Mick Hume January 14, 2005 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1054-1439509,00.html [...] Indeed, the farther into history the Second World War retreats, the more obsessed with Nazis the news seems to...

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January 12, 2005

This reads just like fiction

Holocaust survivor to share his terrifying odyssey By Steve Zalusky Daily Herald Staff Writer Thursday, January 13, 2005 Posted 1/12/2005 http://www.dailyherald.com/search/main_story.asp?intid=3836466 The month was January, the year 1943. [...] On the run from the Germans, Morris Goldner and his father,...

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November 21, 2004

Survivors everywhere

Speakers give BG students insight into Holocaust Nov 21, 2004 http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041121/YOUTH/111210035 [...] The Bishop Guertin High School seniors who had the opportunity to listen to and speak with Rena Finder and Drs. Rita and Alexandre Blumstein certainly thought so. These...

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November 20, 2004

Ninety percent of them gave up (

Holocaust survivor in Charlotte dies at 82 By HILDEGARD SCHEIBNER Nov 20, 2004 http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041120/NEWS/411200428/1006/SPORTS DEEP CREEK -- Margaret B. Baker, who survived four years of slave labor in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, died of heart disease...

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October 31, 2004

How come his story itself didn't tip them off?

Holocaust man's claims queried By CATHERINE MADDEN and JIM KELLY October 31, 2004 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11235884%255E2761,00.html A WA author who wrote a book allegedly based on his harrowing life as a Holocaust survivor is at the centre of a row over...

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July 26, 2004

Jews to Decide What's Fair

Is Fox News not playing fair with 'Fair & Balanced' slogan? Posted on Mon, Jul. 26, 2004 By Frazier Moore The Associated Press [...] In a recent column for the Los Angeles Times, social historian Neal Gabler observed that "if...

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July 21, 2004

Arrested for pimping

'Why we must not forget the Holocaust' A Holocaust survivor tells BBC News Online how he believes the event should be remembered, following the announcement that London will host next year's fifth National Holocaust Memorial Day. When Freddie Knoller...

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July 7, 2004

Forensic evidence needed

Preserving Auschwitz: Forensic evidence of the Holocaust is the best answer to the deniers. http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110005318 from the Wall Street Journal editorial page LEISURE & ARTS BY TIMOTHY RYBACK Wednesday, July 7, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT Last month, Jarek Mensfelt,...

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June 11, 2004

Jewish Eugenics in the 1930s

'Do not have children if they won't be healthy!' A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the...

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May 19, 2004

It's okay to kill civilians

Settler Rabbi: Killing innocent people in war is allowed if saves lives Rabbi Dov Lior, chairman of the settler's rabbinical council ruled that killing civilians during warfare is permitted if it will save lives. Uri Glickman http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=7626 (2004-05-19 21:52:27.0)...

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May 13, 2004

The Lucky Survivor

Holocaust survivor shares memories Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin holds photograph of her family taken before the war. by Ann Duble Standard Editor May 13, 2004 http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/standard/9_10/local_news/28993-1.html Mounds of bodies. One hole for a toilet and another for graves. Every...

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May 9, 2004

Dead man walking

Holocaust survivor shares story to honor others Author speaks to students at CCC about his escape By Sheridan Lyons Sun Staff Originally published May 9, 2004 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/carroll/ bal-ca.survivor09may09,0,3944032.story?coll=bal-local-carroll Leo Bretholz was old enough to remember but is young enough...

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April 19, 2004

Good Thing He's Not a Revisionist!

SSC professor aims to debunk myths about Holocaust in book By Jack Butterworth Monday, April 19, 2004 http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/news/view.bg?articleid=5952 PEABODY -- Salem State College History Professor Christopher Mauriello had a warning for those attending the Holocaust Center Boston North's annual Holocaust...

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April 14, 2004

Holocaust Survivor Children Not Traumatized

Study Shows Holocaust Survivor Children Not Traumatized http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=60841 Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com 14:45 Apr-14-04 / 23 Nisan 5764 (IsraelNN.com) A new study shows that children of Holocaust survivors, in Israel and abroad, do not suffer from psychological problems more than...

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April 11, 2004

Child of the Holocaust

Holocaust survivor to speak at law school

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April 10, 2004

Spent the Holocaust in a Soviet work camp

Survivor wants to keep knowledge of Holocaust alive By MICHELLE EVERHART, News-Sun Staff Writer April 10, 2004 http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-5holo0412.artapr12,0,3974702.story?coll=hc-headlines-local Ira Segalewitz thought coming from Europe to America was like going from hell to heaven. Segalewitz, 67, of Dayton, was born in...

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February 12, 2004

Another survivor and her family

Holocaust survivor speaks of suffering By GAYDA HOLLNAGEL of the La Crosse Tribune Published - Thursday, February 12, 2004 http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2004/02/12/news/z02newsholocaust.txt Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin travels thousands of miles each year to keep the promise she made to women who helped...

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February 22, 2002

Stark, Horrible, Evil & Magnificient, Unforgettable

Review of The Auschwitz Album

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December 26, 2001

Impartiality in Holocaust Study Is Too Dangerous to Jewish Interests

French Jews strike a blow against denying the Holocaust.

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December 3, 2001

No Verification of Nazi Extermination Plan

http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011203/13/int-obit-riegner Man Who Warned of Holocaust Dies By CLARE NULLIS, Associated Press Writer Dec 03, 2001 GENEVA (AP) - Gerhart Riegner, who tried to alert the world about the planned Nazi Holocaust and later led the World Jewish Congress,...

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September 15, 2001

U.S. tied too closely to Israel

Too close to Israel Joshua Stein Letters | The Calgary Herald | September 15, 2001 I used to live two blocks from the World Trade Center, and saw this tragedy coming years ago. Each year that passed, I was...

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September 12, 2001

11-year search gathers relatives

By Carmen Duarte, ARIZONA DAILY STAR Wednesday September 12 05:28 AM EDT Local - The Arizona Daily Star - updated 5:28 AM ET Sep 12 At age 10, Nadia Larsen asked her father about his family, separated by World...

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September 11, 2001

Abusing the Holocaust

(September 11) -- Lucy Dawidowicz, the late Holocaust historian, recalled that one day she received a phone call from a young man affiliated with Larry King's American national talk-radio program. She was asked if she would be prepared to...

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September 4, 2001

Rabbi Says Pope Saved More Jews From Holocaust than Schindler

By John Rossomando CNSNews.com Staff Writer September 04, 2001 (CNSNews.com) -- A Jewish rabbi has told the annual meeting of an international Catholic organization that "[Pope] Pius XII saved more Jewish lives than any other person, including Raoul Wallenberg...

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August 31, 2001

U.N. Chief Tells Israel to Stop Using Holocaust to Justify Its Policies

By Mark Klusener CNSNews.com Correspondent August 31, 2001 Durban, South Africa (CNSNews.com) -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on Israel Friday to stop using the Holocaust as a reason to continue what he said were policies of occupation,...

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August 30, 2001

Book refutes anti-Semitism of Pope Pius XII

Historian says Roman Catholic leader once targeted by Hitler (WorldNetDaily, 8/30/2001) -- For decades, critics have expressed resentment and outrage over reports that Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church during World War II, did little or nothing...

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August 29, 2001

Auschwitz was not a 'death camp'

The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001 The Times WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29 2001 By Gitta Sereny Penguin, £8.99; 416 pp ISBN 0140292632 Gitta Sereny has spent a lifetimes exploring the worst aspects of humanity, and has faced many terrible truths....

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August 21, 2001

Abe Foxman: Disgrace to my Religion

By Monty Warner http://www.frontpagemag.com/ August 21, 2001 AS AN EARLY TEEN, I was playing in a YMCA basketball league in Sumter, South Carolina, a leafy, sleepy southern town of about 35,000 where I was born and raised. Being of...

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August 1, 2001

A Holocaust fraud

(August 1) -- A post-modern parable about the pliable nature of historical truth and the ways in which the memory of the Holocaust is manipulated. In 1995, a new Holocaust memoir titled Fragments, written by one Binjamin Wilkomirski, was...

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July 25, 2001

They came back from the dead to cheat their fellow man

New York's Undocumented Day Laborers Fight for Their Piece of the Big Apple On the Corner The Village Voice Week of July 25 - 31, 2001 Text and photographs by Michael Kamber [...] Teresa's attitude is not unique. Resentment is...

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July 14, 2001

Nazi Saga Takes a New Turn

By ERIC SLATER, Times Staff Writer Los Angeles Times | July 14, 2001 | COLUMN ONE CLEVELAND -- Twenty-four years ago this summer, the U.S. Justice Department made a remarkable allegation: One of World War II's most notorious and...

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June 28, 2001

Disney vs. history

By Bill O'Reilly http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?23430 Thursday, June 28, 2001 This "Pearl Harbor" movie still bothers me. The Disney people re-edited the film for Japanese audiences because of "emotional sensitivity issues." In other words they softened what was already a cupcake...

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May 25, 2001

'Holocaust' replacing Jewish religion traditions

The Unknown Holiday The invisibility of Shavuot in the Jewish community is simply the reflection of a wider American problem. By Rabbi Daniel Lapin, the president of Toward Tradition, a national coalition of Jews and Christians, and the author, most...

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May 3, 2001

Racial discrimination is normal and expected from Jews toward Germans

An American Jew in ... Not Quite Paris Kellerman MightyWords May 3, 2001 Book writing is a solitary profession. As the sole author of my works, I take the credit, I take the blame. About once a year, usually when...

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April 20, 2001

'The Last Rabbi Of Berlin'

Martin Riesenburger led a small flock of Jews during the war, and the Nazis knew it. Now his story is coming to light. Steve Lipman - Staff Writer Dusk, Friday night in Berlin. On the streets outside the entrance...

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April 18, 2001

Growth of the 'Holocaust industry'

By David Newman The Jerusalem Post | April, 18 2001 http://cgis.jpost.com/cgi-bin/General/printarticle.cgi?article=/ Editions/2001/04/18/Opinion/Opinion.24802.html [...] In Israel, Holocaust education has become, for many, a last resort in creating a sense of identity and attachment for a younger generation which has become...

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March 17, 2001

Showers were showers

Actors gain painful look into the past By Yvette Craig Star-Telegram Staff Writer Updated: Saturday, Mar. 17, 2001 at 22:25 CST FORT WORTH -- It's dress rehearsal at Sage & Silo Theater, and actor Kit Hussey is in the...

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March 16, 2001

Nazi Camp Photo Display Hits a Nerve in France

Alan Riding New York Times Service Friday, March 16, 2001 PARIS -- The harrowing photographs taken during the liberation of Nazi death camps in early 1945 played a central role in convincing the world of the existence of a Nazi...

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February 17, 2001

He's done it again

Charles Laurence National Post February 17, 2001 NEW YORK - As the fogs of obfuscation begin to lift from the latest mess of his own peculiar making, former president Bill Clinton is looking like the seasoned snake-oil salesman who...

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February 16, 2001

Holocaust Museum Should Not Receive Fed Funds, Group Says

By Lawrence Morahan CNS Senior Staff Writer February 16, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - By taking sides in controversial political and religious issues, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has departed from its original charter of telling the story of the Holocaust...

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January 25, 2001

The Shoah and those missing photographs

by Jacques Mandelbaum "Le Monde," January 25, 2001, p. 17 The photography exhibit "Memory of the camps" now taking place at the Sully Hotel, raises, as is implied by the very debate it has stirred, the question of the...

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September 25, 2000

No human soap

Atlanta man says Nazis made soap of Jews.

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September 2, 2000

Survivor

YOU NEVER SEE THE SCARS. But she talks about them once in a while and you see them in your mind's eye -- smooth white burn marks on her flesh, old as the Holocaust. She offers the scars as...

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August 18, 2000

Brothers reunited after 61 years

By Sima Stein The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition JERUSALEM (August 18) - It is not every day that brothers who have been separated for over 60 years are reunited. On Wednesday, Lazar Sheiman, 78, and his brother Leonid, 79,...

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July 31, 2000

A thousand stories, a steadfast hero

By Gayle MacDonald The Globe and Mail, Monday, July 31, 2000 Toronto -- The setting is a mess hall, made of tin. It is decorated with paper cutouts of leaves and picnic tables, has a cement floor, and is...

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July 14, 2000

Talking around the Holocaust

Scott Feschuk National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists /story.html?f=/stories/20000714/344085.html July 14, 2000 VOYAGES During this summer screen season of randy mirth, of death by erect penis, of comical attempts at bovine euthanasia, it would be tempting to conclude that Hollywood filmmakers have...

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June 22, 2000

Another Holocaust liar

Survivor's story raises some doubts.

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May 22, 2000

Historians examine churches' anti-Nazi stance

WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- A leading historian of the Holocaust is uneasy about Christian apologies for Nazi genocide. [...] "Christians were among the very first victims of the Nazis," said [Sir Martin] Gilbert, who is Jewish. [...] What...

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May 9, 2000

Holocaust as a Weapon

So, how do some of you address the thoughtless remarks -- do you just let some of this go by, do you try to correct the person, or what? I tend to act surprised and tell the person I...

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May 5, 2000

Wilkomirski award withdrawn

Jewish Chronicle, May 5 2000, * Nisan 30, 5760 JUDGES of a leading Jewish literary award have withdrawn a non-fiction prize from an author whose work has been exposed as fiction. Binjamin Wilkomirski received the 1997 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate award...

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April 30, 2000

New Museum to Launch Israel Into Next Century of Holocaust Remembrance

By Dina Kraft Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli army officer stood before two sculptures, one depicting Jews trudging toward Nazi slaughter and the other portraying Jewish rebels, proud and muscular. The officer told young recruits visiting...

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April 28, 2000

Book Blasts WWII Rabbis

AP-NY-04-28-00 1545EDT By Mark Lavie, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) -- During the Holocaust, ultra-Orthodox American rabbis focused on saving several hundred Polish Talmudic scholars, ignoring the suffering of millions of other Jews who were eventually murdered by the...

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March 30, 2000

French Jewish chief under fire for Auschwitz jibe

PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) - The head of France's main Jewish religious body is under pressure to resign for writing to a long-time rival: "If Auschwitz had not existed, it is likely you would have invented it,'' Jewish sources...

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March 17, 2000

Holocaust Seekers

Online, a tangled web.

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March 16, 2000

The Great Pretenders

In April 1998, the cover of The Jewish Journal featured the person who called himself Binjamin Wilkomirski. Naomi Pfefferman ("Memories of a Holocaust Childhood," April 24, 1998) compared his writing - his one and only book, called "Fragments" --...

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March 13, 2000

German Artist's Nazi Abomination Against Giuliani

March 13, 2000 / 6 Adar II, 5760 Jewish World Review <schmooze@jewishworldreview.com> Debbie Schlussel http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/schlussel.html [...] My mother was born in Mr. Haacke's country in the 1940's, in a camp called Bergen Belsen, where my grandparents were prisoners under...

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February 22, 2000

Commercialization of the Holocaust

Holocaust on the block A new exhibit of artifacts is part of a growing debate over what some say is the commercialization of the tragedy Vancouver -- [...] This exhibition [Fragments, at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre] is occurring at...

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February 20, 2000

Israel gets tremendous sympathy for the Holocaust

Israel Expresses Concern for Talks By Dina Kraft Associated Press Writer Sunday, Feb. 20, 2000; 1:13 p.m. EST JERUSALEM ---- A recent surge of anti--Israel rhetoric in the Arab world prompted Israeli leaders to express concern Sunday for the future...

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February 15, 2000

'There are worse things than denying the Holocaust'

Inspector Clouseau of the Yad Vashem Gendarmerie: The Case of the Wily Dictator By Sam Schulman (TopdrawrSS@aol.com) Jewish World Review (bljolkov@jewishworldreview.com) February 15, 2000 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0200/clouseau.html JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT that the Holocaust Establishment had done its worst to trivialize the...

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January 18, 2000

Denial Denial

"Senior editors at ... publishing houses still welcome me warmly as a friend, invite me to lunch in expensive New York restaurants and then lament that if they were to sign a contract with me on a new book,...

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January 14, 2000

Misleading, Inaccurate, Distorted, and Uninformed Reporting

Kim Murphy's article "Danger in Denying the Holocaust" could be dismissed as amateurish at best were it not the Jan. 7 Column One story of the Los Angeles Times. Because of where it appeared, some of the issues it...

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October 15, 1999

Fragments of a fraud

His memoir was hailed as a classic of Holocaust literature. There were prizes and breathless reviews. But one Swiss journalist smelt a rat and after months of whispers Binjamin Wilkomirski's book was yesterday withdrawn by his German publishers. Fiachra Gibbons and Stephen Moss unravel one of the great literary deceptions

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October 12, 1999

Stop 'Holocaust obsession'

Williams as ‘Jakob the Liar.’ By Debbie Schlussel Jewish World Review / Oct. 12, 1999 /2 Mar-Cheshvan, 5760 I HAVE A CONFESSION to make. Recently, I experimented with the latest product of a shameful industry. No, not porn. Though the...

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May 28, 1999

A scholar argues that Americans are obsessed with the Holocaust

By making the Nazis' crimes the benchmark for oppression, he writes, we risk trivializing other atrocities The Chronicle of Higher Education May 28, 1999 By JEFF SHARLET Chicago Hermann Göring never intended the death camps to act as classrooms, and...

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April 19, 1999

Debate rages over future of the Holocaust's legacy

Some say politicizing event will trivialize it By Douglas Belkin Palm Beach Post Staff Writer In the past 14 months, the director of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., was fired when he objected to the museum being...

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April 18, 1999

Buchenwald: a reminder of Weimar's somber past

Both Nazis and Soviets killed prisoners there MARTA BARBER Miami Herald Staff Writer BUCHENWALD, Germany -- Its name can be translated as Beechwood Forest, and many majestic trees of this species still stand on the surrounding areas. But its history...

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April 9, 1999

Auschwitz Survivor Now Fears NATO

By STEVEN ERLANGER New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/ europe/040999kosovo-jews.html BELGRADE, Apr. 9 Aca Singer, who lost 65 members of his family in the Holocaust, says he didn't survive Auschwitz to die from an American bomb. [...] "When the Americans bombed...

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Mill Hill minister slams ‘Holocaust obsession’

London, Friday, April 9, 1999 Jewish Chronicle JC REPORTER MILL HILL minister Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet criticised what he called "the Holocaust-obsessed" generation in a Passover sermon, suggesting that money would be better spent on Jewish education. He said for...

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March 31, 1999

Needs of Holocaust survivors are ignored

Letters | Canadian Jewish News | March 31, 1999 http://www.cjnews.com/editorial/letters.htm I agree with D.M. Schonberger (CJN, Dec. 24) that the remarks of Irving Abella were deeply offensive. To refer to the Holocaust as a "metaphor" in education (CJN, Dec....

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'St. Louis' passengers often survived the war

Tracing Fates of 907 Jews on Liner Turned Away in 1939 March 31, 1999 By JOSEPH BERGER In June 1939, Ilse Marcus was so tantalizingly close to the saving shores of the United States that she could see the palm...

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March 25, 1999

Ian MacMillan's new novel dares to go where perhaps no novel should

The Boston Phoenix March 25 - April 1, 1999 Holocaust fiction by Adam Kirsch VILLAGE OF A MILLION SPIRITS: A NOVEL OF THE TREBLINKA UPRISING, by Ian MacMillan. Steerforth, 257 pages, $24. The holocaust is an irresistible subject for...

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March 18, 1999

The Holocaust as kitsch

Opinion: Death Camps as Kitsch By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res= FA0A13F93D550C7B8DDDAA0894D1494D81 In St. Petersburg, Fla., the powers that be have graciously prepared a list of "40 Fun Things to Do" in their city. Number 11 on the list...

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January 31, 1999

Leave Hitler out of it

By DAVID WEINBERG The Jerusalem Post [...] On the political extremes, the use of Nazi or Holocaust imagery to delegitimize the opposition is not new, even to Israel only 50 years after the Shoah.... [...] Even worse, in our...

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December 20, 1998

New center for reflection planned for Bergen-Belsen

By Deidre Berger Jewish Telegraphic Agency FRANKFURT, Dec. 20 (JTA) -- Plans are being finalized for a non-denominational sanctuary space to be built on the grounds of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. [...] The planned center will augment an...

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December 19, 1998

Germany remembers Gypsy victims of Holocaust

Associated Press as found on Spokane.net December 19, 1998 BONN, Germany -- Germany's upper house of parliament held a service Friday to commemorate Gypsy victims of the Holocaust. "The murdered people are only really dead if no one remembers...

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November 7, 1998

Guilt was the pretext for stealing Arab lands

Ohio mission faces sobering issues on trip through Israel Saturday, November 07, 1998 By VINDU P. GOEL [Cleveland] PLAIN DEALER REPORTER JERUSALEM - From the Holocaust to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, death has played a critical role in the...

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September 8, 1998

Binjamin Wilkomirski, the fake 'survivor'

Fictional 'survivor' testimony.

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October 17, 1997

Another life cut tragically short by the Nazis

Death camp doctor dies at 85

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July 1, 1997

Elie Wiesel caught in another lie

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Crazy Thesis.

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May 4, 1997

History and remembrance don't mix

Six Candles But No Enlightenment A Holocaust Commemoration Marred by Miryam Z. Wahrman, Ph.D. Jewish Communication Network: Miryam Wahrman The Science Scene One survivor remarked in Yiddish, "Her speech to this audience was like serving pig to Chassidim". The guest...

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May 1, 1997

Nothing to fear from the truth

Human Rights Tribunal hearings In May of 1997, the Holocaust Lobby called a Dr. Frederick Schweitzer as one of its expert witnesses. (Defense Attorney Doug) Christie: I want to make sure I understand. I don't mean to insult you;...

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October 23, 1996

Facts and figures

"These Holocaust deniers are very slick people. They justify everything they say with facts and figures." Steven Some Chairman, New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education Quoted in: Newark Star-Ledger, Oct. 23, 1996 (p. 15)...

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October 3, 1995

'We are not looking for historical accuracy'

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 11:55:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust Survivor Story From: Amcha <amcha@JER1.CO.IL> Dear Friends, The posting...

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April 4, 1995

Phony human soap

Soap for sale.

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February 22, 1995

Israel has a shortage of enemies

Jewish Agency Gets New Leader 02/22/95 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Taking over as Jewish Agency chairman, Israeli lawmaker Avraham Burg vowed to strengthen ties between Israel and world Jewry by turning the organization into a "parliament of the Jewish people." [...]...

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February 12, 1995

Anti-Semitism is good

Jay Lefkowitz Quoted in "Counterculture," by James Atlas New York Times New York, NY: February 12, 1995. pg. SM32, 8 pgs. http://www.nytimes.com/ "I believe that a little anti-Semitism is a good thing for the Jews -- reminds us who...

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January 30, 1992

Yehuda Bauer on the Wannsee Conference

Wannsee's importance rejected THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS Jan. 30, 1992 London (JTA) - An Israeli Holocaust scholar has debunked the Wannsee Conference, at which top Nazi officials are said to have gathered at a villa in a Berlin suburb in...

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September 1, 1990

No business like Shoah business

Dr. Michael M. Dobkowski, Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Martyrdom and Resistance International Society for Yad Vashem, New York City Sept.-Oct. 1990, p. 4. Too many books are written on the Holocaust. There are...

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April 27, 1990

Many Holocaust extermination claims are untrue

Holocaust expert rejects charge that Nazis made soap from Jews.

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January 1, 1988

A Distinguished Professor Comments on Holocaust Claims

Sources for the Gas Chambers Are Rare and Unreliable.

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The importance of communication (even for revisionists?)

The Drowned and the Saved by Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi Summit Books: New York, 1988, pp. 103-104 We [the prisoners of Auschwitz] were able to understand very well, then, that on the great continent of freedom, freedom of communication...

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February 28, 1985

The Holocaust can't be proved scientifically

Many angered by decision to prosecute Jewish community torn by Zundel trial by Kirk Makin Toronto Globe and Mail Feb. 28, 1985, p. 1 [...] Ellen Kachuck, of Toronto's branch of the B'nai B'rith, said virtually everyone she has spoken...

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January 24, 1985

Book 'an artistic picture'

Survivor never saw actual gassing deaths

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January 17, 1985

Yeah, but he was such a good witness

Holocaust scholar quoted 'madman,' publishing trial told Kirk Makin The Globe and Mail January 17, 1985 One of the world's leading authorities on the Holocaust has quoted selectively and extensively a German SS officer who was obviously a madman, the...

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January 12, 1985

Arnold Friedman open to suggestion

Witness indecisive: Lawyer challenges crematoria theory by Kirk Makin The Globe and Mail January 12, 1985 Ernst Zündel's lawyer challenged the testimony of a Holocaust survivor yesterday, telling the man he couldn't have seen concentration camp chimneys belch smoke...

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May 16, 1981

Deborah Lipstadt acknowledges 'No Soap'

Nazi Soap Rumor During World War II.

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January 1, 1981

No business like Shoah business

Leon A. Jick "The Holocaust: its Use and Abuse within the American Public" Jerusalem, Yad Vashem Studies XIV (1981), p. 316 The devastating barb: "There's no business like Shoah business" is, sad to say, a recognizable truth....

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January 1, 1948

300,000 deaths at Auschwitz

"In Kraków the trial of the principal culprits for the Auschwitz concentration camp came to an end before a Polish court. The Defendants were German camp guards or members of the German camp administration staff. Unheard-of atrocities against the...

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January 1, 1934

Every single Jew in the world has been fighting against Germany

In Mascha Rjetsch of January 1934, i.e. ten months AFTER the famous "Judea declares War on Germany" published in the front page of the Daily Express of March 24, 1933, but eighteen months BEFORE the Nuremberg racial laws of...

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