Arendt & Eichmann: The New Truth | Mark Lilla
1.In The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi’s final book on his experiences at Auschwitz, he makes a wise remark about the difficulty of rendering judgment on history. The historian is pulled in two directions. He is obliged to gather and take into account all relevant material and perspectives; but he is also obliged to render the mass of material into a coherent object of thought and judgment: Wi
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking (Published 2013)
A group of Jewish women at the entrance to the Brody ghetto in Eastern Galicia, 1942. The sign is written in German, Ukrainian and Polish.Credit...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/Collection of Eugenia Hochberg Lanceter THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and
Does Yale Historian Timothy Snyder Absolve Eastern Europe of Special Complicity in the Holocaust?
A German soldier with civilians in September 1939 during the German invasion of Poland.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv) A German soldier with civilians in September 1939 during the German invasion of Poland.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv) The dispute between Poles and Jews about the Nazi period can move in unsettling directions, ones that make an unhealed wound hurt even worse. Perceived insults, like President
A Polish Historian’s Accounting of the Holocaust Divides His Countrymen
In the area of the former death camp at Treblinka, Polish militia members came upon people plundering jewelry from murdered Jews. Most academic historians labor in obscurity. But in Poland last year, a Princeton professor’s slim volume of Holocaust history became a controversial best seller. The publisher, Znak, saw its e-mail addresses bombarded, its business threatened with a boycott, and the ar
Hitler's first draft of the Holocaust: unique letter goes on show
A document understood to be the only existing written statement by Adolf Hitler in which he set out his belief in a systematic removal of Jews from society has been acquired by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles. The four-page letter, typewritten on faded brown paper and bearing Hitler's signature, was shown in public for the first time in New York, in what is likely to be seen as a key ar
Hamas fights UN's 'poisonous' Holocaust lessons in Gazan schools
Hamas has vowed to stop the United Nations teaching children in Gaza about the Holocaust, saying it will poison their minds. The history of the Holocaust is planned to be included as part of a human rights curriculum in schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is responsible for the welfare of Palestinian refugees. More than 200,000 children attend UNRWA schools in Gaza. Hamas, the Isl
Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse? | Timothy Snyder
La Documentation Francaise Soon after liberation, an emaciated child survivor is carried out of camp barracks by Soviet first-aid workers. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 27, 1945 As we recall the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, sixty-six years ago today, we might ask: who was worse, Hitler or Stalin? In the second half of the twentieth century, Americans were taught to se
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ノーマン・フィンケルスタイン（2005年） ノーマン・ゲーリー・フィンケルスタイン（Norman Gary Finkelstein, 1953年12月8日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の政治学者、活動家。父親はアウシュヴィッツ＝ビルケナウ強制収容所収監の、母親はマイダネク強制収容所収監のユダヤ人生存者である。 ニューヨークブルックリン区生まれ。1988年にプリンストン大学より博士号を取得している。 プリンストンの院生時代に、パレスチナ人はもともと存在しなかったとするジョーン・ピーターズの著書『From Time Immemorial（邦題：ユダヤ人は有史以来）』を批判する論文を発表して以来、反シオニズム的立場からの研究を進める。 フィンケルスタインは著書『ホロコースト産業』の中で、アメリカのユダヤ人エリート（イスラエル・ロビーなど）が自らの政治的・経済的利益にそぐわないものに対して反ユダヤ主義
EU rejects eastern states' call to outlaw denial of crimes by communist regimes
The European commission has rejected calls from eastern Europe to introduce a so-called double genocide law that would criminalise the denial of crimes perpetrated by communist regimes, in the same way many EU countries ban the denial of the Holocaust. Last week six countries wrote to Viviane Reding, the European justice commissioner, calling for the "public condoning, denial and gross trivialisat
The Holocaust We Don’t See: Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ Revisited | Timothy Snyder
Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, opening this month in New York twenty-five years after its original release, is one of the great works of art of the twentieth century. Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, opening this month in New York twenty-five years after its original release, is one of the great works of art of the twentieth century. As it begins, Simon Srebnik, a Polish Jew who was one of two survivors of Cheł
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BBC - BBC World Service Programmes - Heart And Soul, The Holocaust Deniers, Episode 2
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