Michael Berenbaum
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Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum is a leading expert on the Holocaust. He is the former director of the United States Holocaust Museum Research Institute and President of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He lectures widely and is head of the Los Angeles-based Berenbaum Group, a consuting company that specializes in the conceptual design of museums and the development of historical films, specifically those relating to the Jewish experience and histories of persecution and genocide. He is the main author of and advisor for Britannica's extensive coverage of the Holocaust and is the author of many books, including The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?
Posts by Michael Berenbaum:
Holocaust Denial: Iranian Style
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day this week, it’s worthy to wonder: What’s the difference between Holocaust denial in the West and Holocaust denial as practiced by the President of Iran and his followers?
Why the Allies Didn’t Bomb the Death Camps: Part III
Requests were made to both American and British officials to bomb Auschwitz. Yet the requests were denied. Why? And how did the failure to bomb the death camps serve as a moral impetus for President Bill Clinton’s decision to bomb Kosovo in 1999?
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Why the Allies Didn’t Bomb the Death Camps: Part II
Bombing a concentration camp filled with innocent, unjustly imprisoned civilians posed a moral dilemma for the Allies. To be willing to sacrifice innocent civilians, one would have had to perceive accurately conditions in the camp and to presume that interrupting the killing process would be worth the loss of life in Allied bombings.
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Why the Allies Didn’t Bomb the Death Camps: Part I
For the entire month of April, Encyclopaedia Britannica is highlighting its extensive coverage of the Holocaust. I’ve had the pleasure of serving Britannica as both advisor and contributor in the creation of this material.
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