Lipstadt’s Dog-and-Pony Show (inUSHMM100903)

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Lecture by Deborah Lipstadt at the USHMM: Denial on Trial

All are welcome to attend the following events.
Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free and held at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg
Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126. So we may ensure sufficient space for each event, please reserve seating in advance by telephoning (202) 488-6162. All programs are subject to change, and new events are often added.

Please check the reservation line or the Museum’s Website (http://www.ushmm.org for actual times, locations, and updates.

WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 10,
[2003],
7-8:30 p.m. Helena Rubinstein
[sic]
Auditorium, Lower Level

THE 9th MONNA AND OTTO WEINMANN ANNUAL
LECTURE

Denial on Trial: Defending the History of the
Holocaust in a British
Courtroom

DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and
Director, Institute for Jewish Studies,
Emory University, Atlanta; member, United
States Holocaust Memorial Council; and chair of the Council’s Academic Committee.
She received her B.A. from City College of
New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. in modern
Jewish studies from Brandeis University.

Before her appointment as Dorot Professor, she taught at the University of
California, Los Angeles, and Occidental
College in Los Angeles. Her book Beyond
Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust (1986, 1993) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book
Award. Her Denying the Holocaust: The
Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
(1993) was the first comprehensive study of attempts to deny the Holocaust. From
1996 through 1999, she served as a member of the U.S.

State Department’s Advisory
Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad.

In 1996, David Irving, referred to as a Holocaust denier in Denying the
Holocaust, sued
Professor Lipstadt for libel. The case
David J. C. Irving v. Penguin Books
Ltd. and Deborah Lipstadt was tried in
London from January to April 2000.

Ruling emphatically in Professor Lipstadt’s favor, the judge stated in his judgment at the conclusion of the trial that Irving
“persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence” and “is an active Holocaust denier.”

Twelve questions to put to Prof.
Lipstadt the next time you see her…

The Daily Telegraph (London)
described the trial as having “done for
the new century what the Nuremberg
tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for
earlier generations.” The Times
(London) wrote, “history has had its day
in court and scored a crushing
victory.”

According to the New York Times, the trial “put an end to the pretense that
Mr. Irving is anything but a self-promoting apologist for
Hitler.” In this year’s Monna and
Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture, Professor
Lipstadt discusses her role — and that of
American scholarship and institutions —
in defending the vital legacy of Holocaust survivors.

Illustration:
Hotdogs are served outside the great tourist attraction

Related
items on this website:

Dossier
on Deborah Lipstadt

Lipstadt
trial index

Trial
transcripts

Lipstadt’s
praise for Binjamin Wilkomirski, the
(ASSHOL) fraudster and liar:
“Deborah Lipstadt
has assigned Fragments in her
Emory University class on Holocaust
memoirs.

When confronted with evidence
that it is a fraud, she commented that
the new revelations ‘might complicate
matters somewhat, but [the
work] is still
powerful.'”

Twelve
questions to put to Prof.

Lipstadt the
next time you see her…

Controversy
April 2001 over Emory’s choice of
Deborah Lipstadt as graduation speaker;
won’t get honorary degree

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