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Ahmedinejad Invited to Auschwitz

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has become the world's leading denier of the Holocaust. In Jerusalem, Noah Flug, President of the Auschwitz International Committee, of former prisoners of Auschwitz has sent an invitation to the Iranian leader to visit the death camp to see it for himself.

 

Bergen Belsen

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BBC reporter Patrick Gordon Walker was among the press corps during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Northern Germany on April 15, 1945. Over the next few weeks, he documented what he saw, recording the first Sabbath ceremony openly conducted on German soil since the beginning of the war, interviewing survivors, and speaking to British Tommies about what they had witnessed at liberation.

 

Bleeding Sky, The

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These podcasts were created from recordings of Louis Brandsdorfer’s mother, who recollected her experiences of the Shoah. She describes how many members of her family, from a small Polish town near the German border, died, while she and her sister survived. The quality of the recordings varies.

 

Center For Jewish History

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This website offers outstanding and timely lectures and music from the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Topics include considerations of Freud, anti-Semitism, Klezmer, Baruch Spinoza, and Jews and genes, among others. The center is a joint venture of the American Jewish Historical Society, the Leo Baeck institute, YIVO Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and the American Sephardi Federation.

 

Center for Online Judaic Studies

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The Center for Online Judaic Studies (COJS), is an organization which is revolutionizing the study of Jewish history with cutting-edge internet and digital imaging technologies, including webcasting.  Their interactive encyclopedia, vast database of primary sources, multimedia presentations, and innovative educational materials serve as resources for students, teachers, adult learners, and scholars.

 

Constantine's Sword:  The Church and the Jews

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James Carroll's book, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, is both a powerful and disturbing analysis of the history of Christian, especially Roman Catholic, dealings with the Jews. He argues that Christians took anti-Semitic forks in the road when they might well have written a less tragic history by following another road.

 

Countering Holocaust Denial in Arab and Muslim Societies

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On October 20, 2006, Robert Satloff, Akbar Ahmed, and Gregg Rickman addressed The Washington Institute’s Special Policy Forum. Dr. Satloff is the Institute’s executive director and author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands. Dr. Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun chair of Islamic Studies at American University and former Pakistani high commissioner to Great Britain. Dr. Rickman is special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism with the State Department.

 

David Duke Interviewed by Wolf Blitzer of CNN

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CNN's Wolf Blitzer interviews David Duke in Tehran at Holocaust denial conference, December 13, 2006.

 

Fortunoff Video Archive

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A collection of over 4,200 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is part of the manuscripts and archives collections at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.

 

Holocaust Denial Seminar Report from Fox News

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A Fox News report dealing with Holocaust deniers and the Iranian December 2006 conference on the Holocaust.

 

Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2005

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During the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day official ceremony that takes place at Yad Vashem, six torches representing the six million murdered Jews are lit. The online testimonies and stories of each of the torchlighters are presented here. Yad Vashem, which produces this site, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust.

 

Iran Hosts Holocaust Deniers Conference - from NPR

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NPR report, December 11, 2006, on the two-day conference that brings together Holocaust deniers and foes of Israel from around the world

 

Iran Holocaust Conference Report from BBC

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A BBC report, December 11, 2006, on the Iranian December 2006 conference on the Holocaust.

 

Jadio

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Jadio is a Jewish streaming audio site providing on-demand delivery of Jewish lectures and discussions authored by some of the world's most compelling and inspiring Jewish scholars, including Kenneth Adelman, Yehuda Bauer, Dr. Sara Bloomfield, Shmuley Boteach, Abba Eban, and Esther Jungreis

 

Jew Among Germans, A

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When the German government announced that it was planning to build a "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe" to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in May 2005, Marzynski decided it was finally time to go to Berlin himself.  In "A Jew Among the Germans," FRONTLINE presents Marzynski's moving and provocative search for a Germany that he -- and his children -- can live with.

 

Jewish Life TV

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JLTV is a 24/7 Jewish television channel serving all 50 states.  JLTV features news and sports, movies, music videos, documentaries, magazine programs, shows for children and young adults, comedy and more.

 

Jewish Museum Berlin Reflective Podcast

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The Jewish Museum Berlin Reflective Podcast is a result of the summer 2006 Apple Distinguished Educator Global Awareness Institute. The Jewish Museum Berlin presents an amazing venue to help understand the progression of the German-Jewish people over the course of the last 2,000 years. This podcast offers listeners thought-provoking reflections by educators who visited the museum as part of an Apple Distinguished Educator Global Awareness Institute.

 

JewishTVNetwork

JTN was founded in 1981 as an independent, not-for-profit, production, distribution, and broadcasting company, the only producer and distributor of Jewish television in the United States. Its programming reflects the richness and diversity of Jewish traditions and experience through children’s shows, network quality news, and documentaries, as well as arts and entertainment.

 

Jonathan Safran Foer:  Book Fest 05 - Library of Congress

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Author Jonathan Safran Foer speaks at the 2005 National Book Festival. His debut best-selling novel, Everything Is Illuminated (2002) was translated into 26 languages, won several literary prizes including the National Jewish Book Award, and was made into a movie.  He lives in New York.

 

Nostra Aetate:  Seeking Understanding in Our Age - GeorgetownUniversity

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On October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council issued a statement that called for increased relations with non-Christian religions. This revolutionary document, named Nostra Ætate for the first two words in its original Latin text, translated as "In our age," marked a huge transformation not only in the history of Jewish-Christian relations, but of relations with Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and many others.

 

Ours to Fight For: American Jews in World War II

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To accompany the new temporary exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, this is an online exhibit for “Ours To Fight For: American Jews In The Second World War”.  It features testimony, artifacts, and photographs that illustrate the unique experiences of Jews during World War II.

 

Stuart Eizenstat - Harvard University Great Negotiator of 2003

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On October 1, 2003, Former Deputy Treasury Secretary and author of Imperfect Justice Stuart Eizenstat received the annual Great Negotiator Award from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University. His remarks about leading negotiations for Holocaust restitutions on behalf of the Clinton Administration are of particular interest.

 

The Holocaust & the Importance of Museums

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Anthony Platt's Bloodlines is the story of how an original copy of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, signed by Hitler and turned over to General George S. Patton, ended up in the Huntington Library vault and remained there – unknown to the world - for 55 years.  Platt discusses wartime looting, Patton’s bigotry, the Holocaust, eugenics, Jewish identity, and the responsibility of museums and cultural centers.

 

There Are No Fears (Library of Congress)

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, a poet, novelist, film maker, and professor of literature and cinema, recited his poetry in both English and Russian in a program titled “There Are No Fears.” He was born in Siberia, where his ancestors were sent into exile at the end of the 19th century. His 1961 poem "Babi Yar," a denunciation of both Nazi and Russian anti-Semitism, brought him international recognition. Yevtushenko was awarded the American Liberties Medallion of the American Jewish Committee in 1991.

 

U.N. Holocaust Commemoration

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On January 24, 2005, the UN General Assembly held an unprecedented session commemorating the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. UN Secretary Kofi Annan, Nobel prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and many other dignitaries spoke. The UN Special Session was accompanied with a Virtual Exhibition about the Holocaust.

 

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. offers a unique collection of materials concerning the Holocaust. It also contains important collections about crimes against humanity carried out in other times and places. Online catalogs provide partial access to some of the museum’s collections. Webcasts are available in the film and video, music, and oral history collections. The multimedia archive of events also holds important resources.

 

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum stimulates leaders and citizens to confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. A public-private partnership, federal support guarantees the Museum’s permanence, and donors nationwide make possible its educational activities and global outreach.

 

Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs'and Heroes' RemembranceAuthority

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Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust. Containing the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.
 

 


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