HDOT Interview with Harry Mazal of the Holocaust History Project

HDOT.org posts an interview with Harry Mazal to iTunesU: The podcast chronicles his ongoing combat against online Holocaust denial and hate.

Mazal is one of the founders of the Holocaust History Project, a consortium of scholars and technicians from around the world that responds to Holocaust deniers and reader queries with accurate and vetted information. Using its diverse board as a peer review panel, the Holocaust History Project produces technical analysis of Holocaust documents, drawings, artifacts and images. These pieces are posted to its website www.holocaust-history.org which receives thousands of visitors each month from around the world.

The Holocaust History Project is also unique among most Holocaust educational sites in that they respond to almost all user inquiries, many of which are posted to the site's q&a section.

In this podcast, Mazal describes his more than 15 years of experience combating online Holocaust denial and hate speech. He began responding to denial claims in the "bulletin board" world of Genie and Prodigy that predated the modern internet and has continued to this day. While he celebrates the possibilities the internet offers for democracy, he laments the dangers it poses for history.

A full transcript of the podcast is available in the Podcast section of the HDOT site.