IRAN TO HOST HOLOCAUST DENIAL CONFERENCE

Iran to Host Forum on Holocaust Evidence - Ali Akbar Dareini (AP/Washington Post)
Iran, whose president has described the Holocaust as a "myth," said Tuesday it will hold a conference to discuss the evidence that the Nazis committed genocide against the Jews in World War II. The two-day conference scheduled for Dec. 10-11 was initiated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel Urges Speaking Out Against Intolerance - Randall Beach (New Haven Register)
Human rights activist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel Tuesday told a Yale audience that civilized people must speak out against intolerance, especially the anti-Israel attitude of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wiesel is astonished and outraged that the leader of any country could now try to deny the Holocaust occurred, that six million Jews were systematically exterminated by the Nazis. "I am waiting to hear the outcry," Wiesel said. "You cannot be silent when this man is threatening the existence of a nation....Civilized people, people with conscience, cannot accept this man." Wiesel said Iran should be expelled from the UN, a remark which drew applause from the audience.

'I Saw With My Own Eyes How Thousands of Jews Were Gassed Daily' (NYSun)
The Associated Press was recently given extensive access to the largest archive of Nazi prison camp records, which has been closed for 50 years, on condition that names of the victims remain protected," the AP reports. Especially timely considering Iran's plans to hold a Holocaust denial conference.

BAD AROLSEN, Germany -- The 21-year-old Russian sat before a clerk of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate's office, describing the furnaces at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks previously.

"I saw with my own eyes how thousands of Jews were gassed daily and thrown by the hundreds into pits where Jews were burning," he said. "I saw how little children were killed with sticks and thrown into the fire," he continued. Blood flowed in gutters, and "Jews were thrown in and died there"; more were taken off trucks and cast alive into the flames.

Today the Holocaust is known in dense and painful detail. Yet the young Russian's words leap off the faded, onionskin page with a rawness that transports the reader back to April 1945, when World War II was still raging and the world still knew little about gas chambers, genocide and the Final Solution.

Frank stands out in archive (FORBES)
The lists run into the tens of thousands -- men, women and children tossed into the Nazi machinery of death from just one small country, Holland. Most are unknown, but buried in the world's largest storehouse of documents on Holocaust victims, the name Anne Frank is quickly recognizable.