Holocaust Web Site at Emory Launches Non-English Versions

HDOT.org translated into Arabic, Farsi, Russian and Turkish

ATLANTA, April 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Holocaust Denial on Trial
(HDOT.org), a Web site founded by Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt
to teach about the dangers of Holocaust denial and demonstrate how deniers
distort historical evidence of the Holocaust, is re-launching in four new
languages: Arabic, Farsi, Russian and Turkish. These translations are designed
to spread the original site's messages to areas where Holocaust denial goes
the most unchallenged.

HDOT.org was founded following the well-known David Irving v. Penguin UK and
Deborah Lipstadt libel trial. Holocaust denier Irving sued Lipstadt and her
publisher for calling him a denier who knowingly twists and distorts the truth
of the Holocaust. A British judge found Irving to be an active Holocaust
denier whose writings on the topic included both anti-Semitic and racist
elements.

Despite the success of the Irving trial, online Holocaust denial has increased
significantly in the past few years, says Lipstadt. "Deniers are attacking the
entire history of the Holocaust piece by piece," she says. "Our site puts
basic, easily accessible information into the hands of people encountering
sophisticated content designed to confuse them."

At each of the new sites, visitors will be greeted by a complete parallel home
page, site navigation and content in their language of choice. They will be
able to search the site's database in the new languages as well. The new sites
are available at arabic.hdot.org, farsi.hdot.org, russian.hdot.org and
turkish.hdot.org or via www.hdot.org. "This project significantly expands the
reach of HDOT.org in regions of the world where a significant amount of
Holocaust denial is happening," says Lipstadt.

In addition, HDOT.org has added significantly to its offering of more than 30
Myth/Fact sheets, available in all five languages. These Myth/Fact sheets
address Holocaust denial head-on by listing various claims made about the
Holocaust by deniers and providing the historical evidence that shows them to
be false. Over the past two years, the Myth/Fact sheets have been HDOT.org's
most popular destination.

In conjunction with this launch, HDOT also announces the creation of a new
podcast series, available through Emory's iTunes University at
www.hdot.org/en/learning/itunes. "Holocaust Education and Online Hate Speech,"
includes podcasts featuring such figures as Lipstadt, renowned Holocaust
historian Saul Friedlander and professor Ken Waltzer, who uncovered fraud in a
recent and highly publicized Holocaust memoir. The series also includes
interviews with Michael Shermer, a professional skeptic and author of "Denying
History," and Father John Pawlikowski, a veteran of Catholic-Jewish interfaith
dialogue, speaking about recent events.

"As so much of the strategy that deniers employ involves spreading their
falsehoods on the Internet, we worked with Professor Lipstadt to have
scholarly, authoritative resources available in podcasts. Some of the most
respected experts on denial on the Internet are interviewed," says Alan
Cattier, Emory's director of Academic Technology Services.

The podcasts will form the core of several new lesson plans being produced for
advanced high school and college courses that will help educators and the
public approach the complex of social, historical, political and ideological
issues that emerge in the study of Holocaust denial.

The launch was made possible by grants from the Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany and the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco,
the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties and other funders. The Taube
Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture helped fund the podcast series. HDOT.org
is made possible by significant grants from Angelica Berrie and the Russell
Berrie Foundation, Gralla Family Philanthropic Fund, Yvette and Larry Gralla,
Fern E. and William J. Lowenberg Fund, Leo Melamed Foundation, Mozel
Charitable Trust, Joshua & Nirit Resnick Foundation, Sandler Family
Philanthropic Fund and The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.

SOURCE Emory University

Elaine Justice of Emory University, +1-404-727-0643, +1-404-276-8263 (cell),
elaine.justice@emory.edu