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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism--Cosmopolitan Reflections
This paper aims to disentangle the difficult relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. On one side, antisemitism appears as a pressing contemporary problem, intimately connected to an intensification of hostility to Israel. Opposing accounts downplay the fact of antisemitism and tend to treat the charge as an instrumental attempt to de-legitimize criticism of Israel.
 
CBS News: Nazi archive made public
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google join online Darfur mapping initiative
 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today joined with Google to unveil an unprecedented online mapping initiative aimed at furthering awareness and action in the Darfur region of Sudan. Crisis in Darfur, enables more than 200 million Google Earth mapping service users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur. The Museum has assembled content—photographs, data and eyewitness testimony—from a number of sources that are brought together for the first time in Google Earth. This information will appear as a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth starting today.
 
Holocaust documentary to air on Detroit public television
The Emmy-winning Handleman Filmworks production REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST is scheduled for telecast on Detroit Public Television/WTVS/Channel 56 at 10:30 P.M., Saturday, April 14, 2007 in conjunction with Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) which, according to the Hebrew calendar, falls on the following day. Originally broadcast on PBS stations across America in the late 1980s, the half-hour documentary sought to refute the myth being perpetrated by unscrupulous revisionists at that time that the Holocaust either did not occur or that its scope and severity were not consequential.
 
Visit Yad Vashem online
Sachsenhausen_port_2_smYad Vashem 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.
 
Debunking Iran’s big assumption—the Holocaust created Israel

The game of "historical what ifs" is always inconclusive, but there is no other way to examine the merits of the "Holocaust created Israel" story, because it is playing the game of "what if."  There are major reasons why Israel would have been created had there not been a Holocaust.

 
Holocaust & anti-Semitism links

The MavenSearch website features a comprehensive directory on a wide range of subjects.  In particular, their Holocaust section provides links to a number of personal websites from families who were directly affected by the genocide.  Their anti-Semitism section also provides a comprehensive collection of resources.

 
Protocols of the Elders of Zion—fuel for bigots
Ever since the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were forged by the Russian secret police in 1905, and US Industrialist Henry Ford popularized them in the Dearborn Independent, they have been a staple of anti-"Zionist" propaganda. Today you can find them at many anti-"Zionist" Web sites, and they are published and circulated in Arab countries as the absolute truth.
 
Travel guide to WW II and Holocaust memorials
Remembering the dead in Buchenwald concentration camp, central GermanyThe book ‘Concentration Camps--A Traveler's Guide to WWII Sites’ is a must get publication for anyone wishing to visit World War II sites in Europe.  Several of the sites, especially the concentration camps, can be difficult to reach and information is often scarce.  
 
Denial of Holocaust nothing new in Iran
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shot to the forefront of Holocaust denial with his rabble-rousing remarks last month. But it's more like self-denial. The president of Iran need only look to his country's Hitler-era past to discover that Iran and Iranians were strongly connected to the Holocaust and the Hitler regime, as was the entire Islamic world under the leadership of the mufti of Jerusalem.
 
The fight against Holocaust denial
Belsen was the first death camp entered by the Western allies and first-hand accounts of mass graves, piles of corpses and emaciated, diseased survivors spread quickly around the world. But, in the 21st Century, as these events recede into history and the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles, there are still people who deny these crimes happened - and it is a tendency that some experts say is growing.