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The links below demonstrate the ongoing struggle over the history and memory of the Holocaust. They appear based on keyword searches of current news articles and are neither selected nor endorsed by HDOT.
 Jewish Chronicle | Pupils learn poignant lessons from Auschwitz Jewish Chronicle The 183 students and two dozen teachers are halfway through a day trip organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust as part of its Lessons from Auschwitz project. On the preceding Sunday, they had gathered in London to hear an emotive address from ... |
Q & A: How a fancy Austrian ball stirred worry about neo-Nazis Los Angeles Times In the past, it has received guests like the British Holocaust denier David Irving. Second, because the vice president of the parliament belongs to this fraternity and the Freedom Party. And third, because the ball takes place at the Hofburg Palace, ... |
The Seventy Years Declaration and the Simple Truth Algemeiner One symbolic milestone is Sir Charles Gray's ruling in the Lipstadt-Irving trial in London in spring of 2000, after Holocaust denier David Irving tried to sue Professor Deborah Lipstadt for exposing him. But denial here in Eastern Europe, ... |
This Day, February 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin Cleveland Jewish News (blog) 2006: Right-wing British historian David Irving was convicted in Austria on Monday of denying the Holocaust - a crime in this country once run by the Nazis - and was sentenced to three years in prison. Irving, 67, who had pleaded guilty and insisted ... |
 Los Angeles Times | White supremacists revive dream of a homeland in Northwest Los Angeles Times Instead of doing most of their proselytizing online, as they have in the past, he said, the groups are now sponsoring public meetings, bringing in guest speakers such as David Irving, an internationally known writer who challenges the Holocaust, ... Extremists' retreat to Northwest stokes memories of ugly past |
 ABC Online | Genocide denial: silencing debate does more harm than good ABC Online Like many countries in Europe, France has laws banning Holocaust denial. To this extent, and since it officially recognised the Armenian genocide in 2001, it is merely following its own example by passing this latest bill into law. |
 Transitions Online | The Right to Think Stupid Thoughts Transitions Online A number of European countries have laws criminalizing denial of the Nazi Holocaust or other genocides. The professional Holocaust denier David Irving is a despicable writer. I felt hardly a pang of sympathy when an Austrian court sent him to jail, ... |
White supremacists revive dream of a homeland in Northwest Montreal Gazette Instead of doing most of their proselytizing online, as they have in the past, he said, the groups are now sponsoring public meetings, bringing in guest speakers such as David Irving, an internationally known writer who challenges the Holocaust, ... |
 The Commentator | My great grandparents were dragged from Vienna to a gas chamber. How sorry is ... The Commentator On Holocaust Memorial Day all decent people pay their respects to the six million who were murdered. But events in modern Austria suggest the path to repentance is not at an end When my grandfather's parents were taken by the Gestapo from their home in ... |
HB 542 is recipe for chaos in public schools Seacoastonline.com With regards to history, there are holocaust deniers (followers of David Irving come to mind) who don't want their children taught that Nazi Germany exterminated 6000000 Jews and hundreds of thousands of gypsies and others. And there are many people ... |