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his parents and his 6-year-old brother
was no evidence of Hitler's sanction-
had to dig their own graves, and then
ing a systematic program of extermi-
the Nazis shot them in their backs and
nating the Jews; that six million Jews
they fell into their graves."
could not have died during the
• Ryan Jacobs wrote that his grand-
Holocaust; and that the gas chambers
father
had liberated Dachau, the
at Auschwitz in Poland were fakes.
German
concentration camp. "I am
The Shir Shalom students, all West
happy
to
see you are fighting for the
Bloomfield sixth-graders, discussed evi-
survivors of the Holocaust," Jacobs
dence that showed the Holocaust had
wrote. "That was a terrible moment in
indeed happened and what they thought
our history, and it should never be for-
Lipstadt could do to prove her case.
gotten or made to sound like it
Here are excerpts from some
never happened."
of their letters to Lipstadt:
The trial, expected to last
• "I heard you were being
several
months, has so far
sued and my head went blank,
brought
out several noted histo-
especially about the
-. Like the Shir
rians
to
testify
Holocaust," wrote Josh
Shalom
students,
all expressed
Markzon. "I think that jerk
incredulity
at
Irving's
opinions.
should be behind bars. How
For
example,
Sir
John
can someone say it didn't hap- David Irving
Keegan, a British scholar
pen when six million people
knighted
for his contribution 'w mili-
died? Why would people get numbers
tary
history,
called Irving's ideas "per-
on their arms for an attraction?"
verse,"
and
Irving's
claim that Hider
• "How's the trial going? I'm on
did
not
know
about
the fate of the
your side," wrote Sammy Wax. "I
Jews until 1943 "so extraordinary it
know that the Holocaust happened
would defy reason."
because of all the books, survivors,
Richard Evans, a professor of mod-
World War II pictures, films, disap-
em
history at Britain's Cambridge
pearances, tattoo numbers — and why
University,
said he was "shocked" at
would anyone make up such a cruel
what
he
found
when he closely exam-
story"
ined
Irving's
speeches
and writings.
• "I'm supporting you 100 percent
The
proceedings
in
the
London court-
on what you're fighting for. I think
room had only served to reinforce his
that David Irving has no right to
views that Irving "doesn't deserve to be
believe the Holocaust didn't happen
called a historian at all," he said. ❑
for so many reasons," Mara Essick said
in her letter. "My papa is a survivor,"
— This story contains information from
she wrote, "and he would be very
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
upset if he heard about this. Both of

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examination of Dr. Peter Longerich, a
well-known German professor. After
the day's events, Irving's Web site indi-
cated the witness had been coopera-
tive: "It's so easy," the Web site states,
"I have to urge him to agree with the
points I made."
Unfortunately for Irving, Doeren
said, Dr. Longerich actually had
brought his own copy. of the docu-
ments to the trial. They showed that
Irving's version had been abbreviated
to leave off the incriminating portions.
Also, a word that Irving translated in
Hitler's writings as "to get rid or was
translated by the German scholar as
meaning "to exterminate."
"When you're talking about the
Jewish people, there's a big difference
in the two," Doeren said.
"The argument Irving . was
putting forth the day I was there
was that Hitler didn't know the Jews
Fine Jewelers were being exterminated," Doeren
said, adding that the judge "certain-

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ly" was losing patience.
Irving's writings maintain that the
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph
Goebbels, not Hitler, was the architect
of the campaign to exterminate the
Jewish people. In addition, the British
author feels that the numbers of those
who died in the Holocaust are exag-
gerated and the gas chambers were
built as tourist attractions.
Although Irving repeatedly predicts
that he will win his libel suit against
Emory University Professor Deborah
Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin
Books, Doeren said observers from the
British equivalent of the ADL express
what she called "cautious optimism"
that Lipstadt will prevail. ❑

--- Diana Lieberman
Staff Writer

Irving's Web site can be viewed at:
vvww.fpp.co.uk/Legal/Penguin/
Penguinlndex.html