Western Washington University Foundation and the Ray Wolpow Institute present Deborah Lipstadt, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor against David Irving who sued her for calling of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust him a Holocaust denier and right wing Studies at Emory University, is an award- extremist. Te judge found Irving to be a winning scholar and educator. She has served Holocaust denier, a falsifer of history, a racist, as historical consultant to the United States an antisemite, and a liar. Her legal battle lasted Holocaust Memorial Museum, and she has approximately fve years. In July 2001, the been a member of the United States State Court of Appeal resoundingly rejected Irving’s Department Advisory Committee on Religious attempt to appeal the judgment against him. Freedom Abroad. Among her publications are Te trial was described by the Daily Telegraph Denying the Holocaust: Te Growing Assault on (London) as having “done for the new century Truth and Memory, the frst full length study what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann of those who attempt to deny the Holocaust, trial did for earlier generations.” A flm based and History on Trial: My Day in Court with a on the book starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Holocaust Denier. In the latter, Dr. Lipstadt Wilkinson “Denial” was released to great recounts the story of her libel trial in London acclaim in 2016.
NOVEMBER 15, 2017 7:30-9:00 PM PAC Mainstage, WWU
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