Student Tribune
Holocaust Denial: From the Classroom to the Courtroom
"Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, two-thirds of the world's
population don't know the Holocaust happened--or they deny it."1
Rather than fading away into obscurity, Holocaust deniers recently have
become alarmingly emboldened. Their increasingly public insistence in
questioning the most fundamental and undeniable facts of the Holocaust has
widened the gap between knowledge and myth. As the world's foremost expert on
denial and the havoc wreaked on the historical record by "revisionists,"
Deborah Lipstadt, PhD, commands an exceptional understanding of deniers'
tactics and methods to dispel the ignorance and racism they inflame. Author of
the seminal Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and
Memory, she was sued for libel by infamous denier David Irving. Her
subsequent legal triumph stands as a significant testament in the battle for
historical truth. The 2016 film Denial, based on Lipstadt's
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, was
nominated for Best British film at the 2017 British Academy Film Awards.
Lipstadt currently serves as the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and
Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She was a consultant to the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum and served two terms on its US Holocaust
Memorial Council. Hosted in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater
Rochester and the JCC Lane Dworkin Jewish Book Festival.
Holocaust Denial: From the Classroom to the Courtroom," with Deborah
Lipstadt, PhD
26th Annual Kristallnacht Program
Wednesday, November
8th
7pm
Monroe A/B
FREE tickets available at
www.monroecctickets.com
1 Green, Emma. "The World Is Full of Holocaust Deniers." The
Atlantic, 14 May 2014, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05
/the-world-is-full-of-holocaust-deniers/370870/
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