Other acts of genocide and atrocity have met similar attempts to deny, to minimise, or to hush up. The list of these acts is extensive and proof is often difficult to obtain, either because governments are involved in the denial or because there is debate on whether the occurred atrocities are genocide or not. The toll of the Great Chinese Famine caused by the government of Mao was higher than the toll of the Second World War in China but could only be proved some decades later with demographic evidence. Some other examples are:

In two cases, entire countries resisted the deportation of their Jewish population. The Rescue of the Danish Jews saved around 7,500 Jews en masse in October 1943. The Nazi-allied government of Bulgaria, lead by Dobri Bozhilov, refused to deport its 50,000 Jewish citizens, saving them as well, though Bulgaria did deport Jews to concentration camps from areas it conquered in Greece and Macedonia. Additionally: ...

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List of people who helped Jews during the Holocaust, List of people who helped Jews during the Holocaust - Countries, List of people who helped Jews during the Holocaust - Leaders and diplomats, List of people who helped Jews during the Holocaust - Individual heroes, List of people who helped Jews during the Holocaust - Villages helping Jews

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Other acts of genocide and atrocity have met similar attempts to deny, to minimize, or to hush up. The list of these acts is extensive and proof is often difficult to obtain, either because governments are involved in the denial or because there is debate on whether the occurred atrocities are genocide or not. The toll of the Great Chinese Famine caused by the government of Mao was higher than the toll of the Second World War in China but could only be proved some decades later with demographic evidence. Some other examples are:

Unlike the Karaim, the Krymchaks were targeted for annihilation by the Nazis. Six thousand Krymchaks, almost 75% of their population, were liquidated by the Nazis. Moreover, upon the return of Soviet authority to the region, many Krymchaks found themselves mistakenly deported to Central Asia along with their Crimean Tatar neighbors. By 2000 only about 2,500 Krymchaks lived in the former Soviet Union, about half in Ukraine and the remainder in Georgia, Russia, and Uzbekistan. A few hundred Krymchaks still clinging to their Crimean identity live in the United States and Israel ...

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Krymchak, Krymchak - Language, Krymchak - Origins, Krymchak - Middle Ages, Krymchak - Tatar and Turkish rule, Krymchak - Russian and Soviet rule, Krymchak - The Holocaust and after, Krymchak - Sources

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It is asserted that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has made it a long term practice to vicariously baptize the Holocaust's Jewish victims and other prominent individuals. However, Church policy states that Church members submit their own names for these type of ordinances, and require that a surviving family member's permission be obtained for any Baptism that is to be performed of deceased individua ...

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Baptism for the dead, Baptism for the dead - Overview, Baptism for the dead - History, Baptism for the dead - Christian opposition, Baptism for the dead - Holocaust Victim Controversy, Baptism for the dead - Links, Baptism for the dead - Links with a Neutral Viewpoint about Baptism for the Dead, Baptism for the dead - Opposed to Mormon Baptism for the Dead, Baptism for the dead - In Favor of Baptism for the Dead, Baptism for the dead - About unauthorized proxy baptisms

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During World War II, when Greece was occupied by the Axis, 86% of the Greek Jews, especially those in the areas occupied by Nazi Germany and Bulgaria, were murdered despite efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church and many Christian Greeks to shelter Jews. Although the Germans and Bulgarians deported a great number of Greek Jews, many were hidden by their Greek neighbours. Despite this though, roughly ...

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Romaniotes, Romaniotes - History, Romaniotes - World War II and the Jewish Holocaust, Romaniotes - Present Day, Romaniotes - Kehila Kedosha Yashan Synagogue, Romaniotes - Famous Jews in Greece

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During the Holocaust, the Nazis confiscated tens of thousands of works from their legitimate Jewish owners. Some were sold by the Nazis, while many others were confiscated by the Allies at the end of the war. Many ended up in the hands of respectable collectors and institutions. Jewish ownership of the art was codified into the Geneva conventions. ...

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Art theft, Art theft - Individual theft, Art theft - Famous cases of art theft, Art theft - The Mona Lisa 1911, Art theft - Panels from the Ghent Altarpiece 1934, Art theft - Last Judgment triptych by Memling 1473, Art theft - The Gardner Museum 1990, Art theft - Russborough House, Art theft - Stephane Breitwieser - The Art Collector ~2001, Art theft - Frankfurt art theft and Operation Cobalt 1994-2003, Art theft - Edvard Munch works 1994 2004 and 2005, Art theft - Saliera, Art theft - Theft during the Holocaust, Art theft - Recovery, Art theft - The portrayal of art theft in popular media, Art theft - Literature, Art theft - Film

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Like the rest of Yiddish-language culture, Yiddish theatre was devastated by the Holocaust. A major portion of the world's Yiddish-speakers were killed and many theatres were destroyed. Many of the surviving Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi emigrated to Israel, where many assimilated into the emerging Hebrew-language culture. Although its glory days have passed, Yiddish theatre companies still perform in various Jewish communities. The Folksbiene (People's Theatre) company in New York City is still active 90 years after it was founded. The ...

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Yiddish theatre, Yiddish theatre - Precursors and early influences, Yiddish theatre - The first rumblings, Yiddish theatre - The early years, Yiddish theatre - The Russian era, Yiddish theatre - London, Yiddish theatre - The heyday of Yiddish theater, Yiddish theatre - The effect of the Holocaust

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After the Night of the Long Knives, the SS-Totenkopfverbände was given the task of organizing and administering Germany's regime of concentration camps and, after 1941, the extermination camps in occupied Poland. The SS, through its intelligence arm the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), was charged with finding Jews, Roma, priests, homosexuals, communists and those persons of any other cultural, racial, political or religious affiliation deemed by the Nazis to be either Untermenschen (sub-human) or in opposition to the reg ...

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Heinrich Himmler, Heinrich Himmler - Early life, Heinrich Himmler - Early Nazi Party activity, Heinrich Himmler - Rise in the SS, Heinrich Himmler - Consolidation of power, Heinrich Himmler - Himmler and the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler - Poznań speech, Heinrich Himmler - The Second World War, Heinrich Himmler - Peace negotiations capture and death, Heinrich Himmler - Conspiracy theories, Heinrich Himmler - Historical view, Heinrich Himmler - Surviving family

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Some people think that the scenario of the "Doctors' plot" was reminiscent of the previous Stalin purges of the late 1930s, and the plan to deport the whole population based on its ethnicity resembled previous similar deportations. Accordingly, some argue that Stalin was preparing a USSR-wide pogrom, the "Second Holocaust", to finish what Hitler had begun, but this time, the scheme was not completed because of Stalin's death on March 5, 1953. Proponents of this version cite mainly the memoirs (sometimes only alleged) and late testimon ...

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Doctors' plot, Doctors' plot - Background, Doctors' plot - An article in Pravda, Doctors' plot - Arrests, Doctors' plot - Stalin's death and the consequences, Doctors' plot - The Second Holocaust controversy

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Their status under Russian imperial rule bore beneficial fruits for the Karaim decades later. In 1934, the heads of the Karaite community in Berlin asked the Nazi authorities to exempt them from the regulations; on the basis of their legal status in Russia. The Reich Agency for the Investigation of Families determined that from the standpoint of German law, the Karaites were not to be considered Jews. The letter from the Reichsstelle fur Sippenforschung gave the official ruling in a letter which stated: The Karaite sect shoul ...

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Crimean Karaites, Crimean Karaites - Language, Crimean Karaites - Origins, Crimean Karaites - In Lithuania, Crimean Karaites - In the Russian Empire, Crimean Karaites - During the Holocaust, Crimean Karaites - Post-War, Crimean Karaites - Recommended Reading

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Ben Hecht was a great supporter of Zeev Jabotinsky and the right-wing Revisionist Zionism movement of Menachem Begin. He subsequently wrote and published the book Perfidy, dramatizing the failure to rescue Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, and the roles of the Zionist leader Rudolf Kastner and others in high leadership positions in that affair, which was the subject of a famous libel trial when Kastner sued Grunwald, who had accused him of complicity with the Nazis. In that trial, although the court initially held that these accusa ...

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Ben Hecht, Ben Hecht - Life and career in Hollywood, Ben Hecht - Jewish and anti-Holocaust activism, Ben Hecht - Quotes, Ben Hecht - Ben Hecht's Academy Award nominations, Ben Hecht - Ben Hecht's writing filmography, Ben Hecht - Books partial list

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Critics such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide studies have accused the Institute of anti-Semitism and having links to neo-Nazi organizations, and assert that its primary focus is denying the commonly-understood facts of the Nazi genocide of Jews and others. [2] [3][4] Criticism of the organization is not limited to groups focusing on the Holocaust. Britain's Channel 4 describes the IHR as a "pseudo-academic body based in the United States which is dedicated to denying that the Holocaust ha ...

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Institute for Historical Review, Institute for Historical Review - History, Institute for Historical Review - Holocaust Denial, Institute for Historical Review - Criticism of methods, Institute for Historical Review - Journal of Historical Review, Institute for Historical Review - Alleged links to Muslim anti-Semites

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In 1977, Zündel founded a small press publishing house called Samisdat Publishers which issued such pamphlets as The Hitler We Loved and Why and Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Harwood a.k.a. Richard Verrall (a neo-Nazi leader of the British National Party). By the early 1980s, Samisdat Publications had grown into a worldwide distributor of Nazi and neo-Nazi posters, audiotapes, and memorabilia, as well as pamphlets and books devoted to Holocaust denial and Allied and Zionist "war crimes", claiming a mailing list ...

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Ernst Zündel, Ernst Zündel - Background, Ernst Zündel - Holocaust denial, Ernst Zündel - Trials, Ernst Zündel - Detention and deportation, Ernst Zündel - German trial, Ernst Zündel - Zündel's ancestry, Ernst Zündel - Quotes

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Due to his active role in the deportations and his iron rule, Rumkowski's behavior remains a topic of bitter debate. Some historians and writers see him as a traitor and as a Nazi collaborator. In all his activities, Rumkowski displayed great zeal and organizational ability, becoming increasingly dictatorial and ruling with an iron hand. Within the ghetto, Rumkowski overcame opposition with the aid of Nazi intervention and by introducing an even-handed system of food distribution. His attempts to satisfy perfectly all German demands a ...

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Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski - Debate over Rumkowski's role in the Holocaust, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski - Give Me Your Children

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By the mid-1980s, Irving began lecturing to far-right groups such as the German Deutsche Volksunion, associated himself with the Institute for Historical Review, which is widely considered to be anti-Semitic, and began making statements that moved him from murky to clearly revisionist territory. For example, he denied that Nazis systematically exterminated Jews in gas chambers during World War II and claimed that The Diary of Anne Frank was mostly a postwar forgery by her surviving father. In 1988, he testified for the defence at Cana ...

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David Irving, David Irving - Early life, David Irving - The Destruction of Dresden, David Irving - Historian, David Irving - Revisionist, David Irving - Holocaust denial and libel suit, David Irving - Persona non grata, David Irving - Current activities, David Irving - Arrest in Austria, David Irving - Recent Past, David Irving - Irving bibliography

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In 1993, the Yad Vashem institute decided to build a new, larger museum to replace the old, smaller museum, which was built during the 1960's. This was in response to the construction of larger Holocaust museums in Washington D.C. and Europe. The new museum is the largest Holocaust museum in the world. It is carved into the mountain and designed to reflect the story of the European Jewish community during the Holocaust and their resurrection from the ashes in Israel. It consists of a long corridor with 10 exhibition halls, each dedicated to ...

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Yad Vashem, Yad Vashem - Activities, Yad Vashem - Museum, Yad Vashem - Righteous among the nations

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Farrakhan makes the claim that "the Jews" financed the Holocaust. "German Jews financed Hitler right here in America...International bankers financed Hitler and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of what you call the Holocaust...Little Jews died while big Jews made money. Little Jews [were] being turned into soap while big Jews washed themselves with it. Jews [were] playing violin, Jews [were] playing music, while other Jews [were] marching into the ...

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Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - Charges of anti-Semitism, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - General claims, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - Claims that the Jews control the economy, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - Criticisms of perceived Jewish control, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - References to Jews as bloodsuckers, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - Portraying Jewish people as slumlords and the devil, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - Response to charges of anti-Semitism, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - On Jews Nazis and the Holocaust, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - NOI cooperation with bigoted groups, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - NOI cooperation with Holocaust deniers, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - Cooperation with LaRouche groups, Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism - White supremacists

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Wiesel was born in Sighet (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), Romania, to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel, Orthodox Jews of Hungarian descent who owned a grocery store. He had three sisters. Elie was devoutly religious as a child and he spent much of his young life studying religious texts. Wiesel was particularly interested in the traditions and folklore of Hasidic Judaism, but he also studied secular topics. The town of Sighet became part of German ally Hungary in 1940, and in 1944 the Nazis deported the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz–Birk ...

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Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel - Early life and experiences during The Holocaust, Elie Wiesel - After the War, Elie Wiesel - Life in the United States, Elie Wiesel - Criticism, Elie Wiesel - Books, Elie Wiesel - Works Cited, Elie Wiesel - Notes

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Wiesel was born in Sighet (now Sighetu Marmaţiei), Romania, to Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel, Orthodox Jews of Hungarian descent who owned a grocery store. He had three sisters. He was devoutly religious as a child and he spent much of his young life studying religious texts. Wiesel was particularly interested in the traditions and folklore of Hasidic Judaism, but he also studied secular topics. The town of Sighet became part of the German ally Hungary in 1940, and in 1944 the Nazis deported the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz–Bi ...

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Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel - Early life and experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel - After the war, Elie Wiesel - Life in the United States, Elie Wiesel - Criticism, Elie Wiesel - Books, Elie Wiesel - Works Cited, Elie Wiesel - Notes

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Shoah Foundation - Surviving Auschwitz - Five Personal Journeys. Organized around an interactive map of the world that traces the survivors’ paths on five continents, Surviving Auschwitz: Five Personal Journeys demonstrates how the shared experience of the holocaust affected individuals from very diverse cultures. This dynamic educational tool—geared to students in grades 8 through 12 and the general public utilizes four hours of testimony video clips from the Shoah Foundation’s archive, more than any other online exhibit on www.vhf.org. Shoah Founda ...

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Shoah Foundation, Shoah Foundation - Online exhibitions, Shoah Foundation - Surviving Auschwitz - Five Personal Journeys, Shoah Foundation - Voices of the Holocaust - Children Speak, Shoah Foundation - Survivors - Testimonies of the Holocaust, Shoah Foundation - Testimony Segments for the classroom, Shoah Foundation - View Testimonies Online, Shoah Foundation - Documentaries and other works

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This problematic underscores a more fundamental question: whether the Holocaust can (or to what extent it should) be made explicable through a social-scientific, historical account. Speaking against what he terms "quasi mystical association," historian Nicolas Kinloch writes that "with the publication of Raul Hilberg’s monumental book," the subject had risen to be considered "an event requiring more, rather than less, stringent historical analysis." 5 Citing Holocaust historian, Yehuda Bauer, that "if the Holocaust was ca ...

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The Destruction of the European Jews, The Destruction of the European Jews - Written with support published with difficulties, The Destruction of the European Jews - Opposition from Hannah Arendt, The Destruction of the European Jews - Opposition from Yad Vashem יד ושם, The Destruction of the European Jews - Against overstating heroism of Jewish victims, The Destruction of the European Jews - The Holocaust as an historically explicable event, The Destruction of the European Jews - Stages leading to the destruction process, The Destruction of the European Jews - An intentional destruction, The Destruction of the European Jews - A destruction of 5.1 million Jews, The Destruction of the European Jews - Widely acclaimed as seminal, The Destruction of the European Jews - Footnotes

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