Since a 25 year old without a history degree can fact check better than these two propagandists, maybe I should be running the United States Holocaust museum.
These aren't historians, these are propagandists
Historian 1 : This rabbi’s wife is very high up in the organization that hands out the Oscar award, which this “documentary” received. Hollywood and History, the Jews control both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum (born 1945) is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and film-maker, who specializes in the study of the memorialization of the Holocaust. He is perhaps best known for his work as Deputy Director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust (1979 – 1980), Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1988 – 1993), and Director of the USHMM’s Holocaust Research Institute (1993 – 1997); as such, Berenbaum played a major role in the creation of the USHMM and the content of its permanent exhibition. From 1997 – 1999, Berenbaum served as President and CEO of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and subsequently (and currently) as Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust, located at the American Jewish University (formerly known as the University of Judaism), in Los Angeles, CA.
Berenbaum, who is Jewish, graduated from Queens College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 and received his doctorate from Florida State University in 1975. He also attended The Hebrew University, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Boston University. Berenbaum received Rabbinic ordination (Orthodox) by Rabbi Yaakov Rabin at the age of 23.
Berenbaum has held teaching posts at Florida State University, Yale University, Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, College Park, and American University, and is currently a Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University (Los Angeles).
He is the author and editor of eighteen books, including After Tragedy and Triumph, a study of the state of American Jewry in the early 1990s, as well as The World Must Know, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, and others. Berenbaum is the Executive Editor of the New Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed., that includes 22 volumes, six million words, and 25,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge, published in December 2006 (ISBN 0028659287); it won the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association for the outstanding reference work of 2006.
Berenbaum co-produced One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissmann Klein Story, a film which was recognized with an Academy award, an Emmy Award and the Cable Ace Award. He was the chief historical consultant for Last Days, which also won an Academy Award in 1998. In 2001, Berenbaum was historical consultant for the History Channel’s The Holocaust: The Untold Story, which won the CINE Golden Eagle Award and a Silver Medal at the US International Film and Video Festival. He was also Executive Producer of a film entitled Desperate Hours on the Holocaust in Turkey and on “About Face: The Story of The Jewish Refugee Soldiers of WWII”. Berenbaum was executive producer of Swimming in Auschwitz and was a consultant for Defiance and Uprising, among other Holocaust-related films and documentaries.
Berenbaum’s wife, Melissa Patack Berenbaum, is the Vice President and General Manager of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), California Group, and president of the California chapter of the MPAA. Berenbaum is the father of four children.
Historian 2 :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_L._Braham
Randolph L. Braham is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist in comparative politics and the Holocaust, he also is Director of The Graduate Center’s Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. He is the author, co-author, or editor of over 60 books and has written over 300 articles and essays, the vast majority dealing with the Holocaust in Hungary.
[edit]Biography
Born in Bucharest in 1922, Professor Braham was raised in Dej, a small rural town in Romanian-held Transylvania. In 1940 Hungary was allotted the northern part of Translyvania and less than four years later the Jews of Northern Transylvania were destroyed along with those of Hungary, excepting Budapest. Among those murdered were Professor Braham’s parents and many other relatives.
He spent 1943-45 in a forced labor unit with the Hungarian and German armies in the Ukraine and was later incarcerated in a Soviet POW camp. Shortly after the war he received his M.A. from The City College of New York, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research.[1]
Braham served as a member of the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., and as a special adviser for the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York. His works were used as major source books by courts of law in various countries, including Canada, Germany, Israel, and the United States in cases involving restitution and war crimes.
His two-volume The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary won the 1981 Jewish National Book Award (USA), and earned him two citations in the Congressional Record. Among his other honors are the Order of Merit Officer’s Cross of the Hungarian Republic (1995), the Pro Cultura Hungarica Award of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture (2002), and Officer Rank of the Order of the Star of Romania (2004). He returned his 2004 award in protest against the Romanian President’s awarding the same award to a Rightist extremist.
In the 1998 Academy Award for Documentary Feature-winning film The Last Days Braham provided on-screen overviews of the Hungarian Holocaust.
