Denial of the Denial, or the Battle of Auschwitz : : Debates about the Demography and Geopolitics of the Holocaust / / ed. by Pavel Polian, Alfred Kokh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Avraham, Alexander,; Benz, Wolfgang,; Della Pergola, Sergio,; Kokh, Alfred,; Kupovetsky, Mark,; Pohl, Dieter,; Polian, Pavel,; Polyan, Pavel,; Shneer, Aron,
• HerausgeberIn: Kokh, Alfred,; Polian, Pavel,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and politically. This is due to the modernization of anti-Semitism in the West, where accusations of ritual murder have long been passé and claims that the Holocaust was a hoax are de riguer, and to the government sanctions of anti-Semitism in the East in countries such as Iran. The purely scholarly problem of determining the number of victims, like other aspects of demography related to the Holocaust, have suddenly become closely embroiled in geopolitics and the phenomenon of Holocaust denial, which is now a context that has been forced upon it. This book is imbued with these connections and interrelationships. Avraham, Wolfgang Benz, Sergio Della Pergola, Mark Kupovetsky, Dieter Pohl, Aron Shneer, and the editors contribute their voices to the topic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FROM THE EDITORS -- I -- A DENIAL OF DENIAL -- THE DENIAL OF THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS GEOPOLITICS -- II -- THE DEMOGRAPHY OF POST-SOVIET JEWRY. GLOBAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS -- THE DIMESIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST -- JUST HOW MANY? ON THE DEATH TOLL OF JEWISH VICTIMS OF NAZI CRIMES -- JEWISH POPULATION LOSSES DURING WORLD WAR II WITHIN THE PREWAR (SEPTEMBER 1939) AND POSTWAR BORDERS OF THE USSR -- THE HALL OF NAMES AND THE CENTRAL DATA BASE OF SHOAH VICTIMS’ NAMES -- THE HOLOCAUST IN LATVIA ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF THE “HALL OF NAMES” YAD VASHEM. “PAGES OF TESTIMONY” AS A SOURCE FOR THE RESEARCH OF THE HOLOCAUST IN LATVIA -- III -- THE DEMOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS OF THE HOLOCAUST -- Afterword. THE TRIAL OVER THE SIX MILLION -- AFTERWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- APPENDICIES -- Appendix 1. Selected Bibliography on Holocaust Denial -- Appendix 2. The First Soviet Estimates of the Victims of the Auschwitz Death Camp -- Appendix 3. Europe’s Dead and Killed Jews by Countries and Categories: Different Estimates