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An interview with Holocaust Historian Deborah Lipstadt

By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada On Sept. 5, 1996, British author (and now infamous Holocaust denier) David Irving accused American historian Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books of libel following the publication of her book, Denying the Holocaust, where she charges Irving and several other suspected deniers of “purely antisemitic diatribe.” As …

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Holocaust-denying Professor Anthony Hall Suspended Without Pay

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B’nai Brith Canada is commending the University of Lethbridge for officially suspending Anthony Hall, a Globalization Studies professor who vocally supports Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories blaming the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on Israel. A video posted to YouTube this morning by Hall outlines that he has been suspended from his position without pay, as the …

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Documentary Of Anne Frank Screened Illegally In Iran

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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The first documentary of Anne Frank in Arabic hs been secretly screened in Iran, a country whose leaders openly deny that the Holocaust happened. On Aug. 17, Deadline reported that Croatian film director Jakov Sedlar screened Anne Frank: Then and Now in an Iranian provincial theatre without approval from the authorities. The …

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Nazi Propaganda Minister’s Wife Was Half Jewish

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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada It looks like the “ideal Aryan family” included some Jewish progeny. A new discovery in the Berlin archives has revealed that Magda Ritshel, wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, falsified her birth certificate and that her father was actually Jewish. On her birth certificate, it showed that Magda was the …

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Diary Of KGB Head Reveals Raoul Wallenberg Was Executed on Stalin’s Orders

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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat and holocaust hero, has finally had his mysterious death revealed. A recently discovered diary of a KGB head says that the hero was executed in a Soviet prison in 1947. On August 6, the New York Times reported that the diary of Ivan A. Serov, the first …

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Himmler’s Diaries Discovered

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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The diaries of Nazi mass murderer Heinrich Himmler have been found in the Russian Military Archive in Podolsk filed under Dnewnik, Russian for diary. The diaries contain Himmler’s personal life experiences throughout 1938, 1943, and 1944, as reported by Daily Mail. The diary mainly functioned as a service calendar containing dates, places, …

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Pope Francis to Visit Auschwitz on Poland Trip

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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Pope Francis will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Friday during his five-day trip to Poland. Pope Francis’ visit follows the example of the two previous Popes. Pope John Paul II was the first to go in 1979 and Pope Benedict visited in 2006. John Paul II’s visit was …

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B’nai Brith Canada Statement on Prime Minister Trudeau’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Visit – B’nai Brith Canada

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Sunday to pay tribute to the millions who were massacred during the Holocaust. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Holocaust Survivor and past president of the Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants (CJHSD) Nate Leipciger …

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Nazi Death Squad Member to Stay in Canada After Supreme Court Victory

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada chose not to hear the Attorney General’s appeal against Helmut Oberlander, as part of the Government of Canada’s ongoing efforts to strip the Nazi Einsatzkommando veteran of his Canadian citizenship. “Oberlander’s activities contributed to the Einsatzkommando’s sinister campaign to erase the Jewish population of Occupied Europe during the Holocaust,” …

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Canadian Jewry Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Today marks the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1945, and has been designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since 2005, the United Nations has designated January 27 as a day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust, including six million Jews, and five million non-Jews who were murdered …

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