As 2020 marks the 75th anniversaries of the liberation of Auschwitz, the biggest German Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland, and the 75th anniversary of the end of Holocaust, it is crucial to explore some of the issues that continue to poison the narrative. One of them is Holocaust denial and distortion.
The dismissal of irrefutable and established facts that the Holocaust happened belittles the suffering of the victims and survivors of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. Holocaust denial and distortion are forms of hate speech that dehumanize the victims and survivors and aim to question and justify the acts.
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