to bring former nazis to justice. they explored questions raised by recent trials, such as if perpetrators are ever too old or frail to prosecute, and whether it ever too late for accountability. speakers at this event included a holocaust survivor, a pulitzer prize-winning journalist, and a documentary filmmaker. good evening, everyone. my name is jessica abraham. i m very pleased to welcome all of you in the audience, as those as well as those of you watching online. i want to recognize the embassy of canada, cosponsor of tonight s program. you will hear from a representative of the embassy a little later in the evening. i also had the pleasure of serving as cochair of the museum s lenders community. the institution and the museum is one that not only honors the victims of the holocaust, but stands as a stark reminder of the importance and relevance of the lessons of the holocaust. the museum has found impelling ways to engage many audiences, audiences one would never e
, u.s. holocaust memorial museum hosted a panel discussion looking at the continuing quest to bring former nazis to justice. they explored questions raised by recent trials, such as if perpetrators are ever too old or frail to prosecute, and whether it ever too late for accountability. speakers at this event included a holocaust survivor, a pulitzer prize-winning journalist, and a documentary filmmaker. good evening, everyone. jessica abraham. welcome allased to of you in the audience, as those as well as those of you watching online. i want to recognize the embassy of canada, cosponsor of tonight s program. you will hear from a representative of the embassy a little later in the evening. i also had the pleasure of serving as cochair of the lenders community. the institution and the museum is one that not only honors the dictums of the holocaust, but ofnds as a stark reminder the importance and relevance of the lessons of the holocaust. impelling has found ways to engage
start by contextualizing for you holocaust denial. i ll talk to you about what happened during my trial but first i want to talk who are holocaust deniers, why do they say what they say and how can we understand, what s doing, or what their arguments are, their so-called arguments are? but i think we have to begin first by defining the holocaust. i m getting sort of a basic definition. there are many variations. how would you define the holocaust? don t all freeze up on me. how would you define the holocaust? we went over this briefly in class that we went back to the root of the word holocaust, total and caust to be consumed by fire. a more popularized term to describe the hebrew term for the utter destruction of the jewish people. prof. lipstadt: the utter destruction of the jewish people by whom? the third reich. the germans. it is not all the horrific things the germans did during the war. the germans did many horrific things, killed millions of people. had they w
planning this year s program, we selling authors of history decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist. don miller, author of masters the air is also one of our long-standing advisors and counselors. he is a perennial conference presence. he is also like like we heard from rick atkinson this morning he is looking into another time period in our history and will soon be coming out this vicksburg, grant s campaign that broke the confederacy. when planning, the committee decided on this idea for a session and don told us we had to invite jessica shattuck, author of women in the castle. so, to hear about jessica s book and the differences and similarities in writing these two genres, please welcome me in joining please join me in welcoming don miller and jessica shattuck. [applause] donald: we are going to get started. it s good to see everyone, although i can t see you in these lights. seeing people to take a trip with us and the regulars at the conference and newcome
relationship with trump of the white house trump work for him full-time. we know less about calls oliveira, we don t have a photo of him we went to get our first glimpse of him until tomorrow when he scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court in miami. from what we do, no deal of air is 56 years old. he s worked in mar-a-lago in a number of jobs for about 20 years. he has multiple roles but currently he s the property manager of the resort. special counsel jack smith s team is fanned both nada and de oliveira with multiple crimes. including serious crimes, conspiracies to obstruct justice. prosecutors allege that nadia and dealer eric carried out trump s orders and remove dozens of boxes of government records, including those that were handled with and classified around mar-a-lago in order to prevent fraud in the 30s even trump s own lawyers from finding them. if convicted, they could face years-long prison sentences. at this, time both men still remain employed