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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 min. 49 sec.) ; 322029750 bytes |
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Rewriting History: When Truth is the Enemy is a contemporary political story that follows two professors, Australian academic Danny Ben-Moshe and Professor of Yiddish, Dovid Katz, as they take on the Lithuanian government to try and prevent an inconvenient World War Two historical truth from being obliterated - that Jews were killed by Lithuanians independent of the Nazis.In an economically vulnerable Europe, where the rise of ultra-nationalism and anti-Semitism is a sobering reminder of the socio-economic fabric that gave rise to the Second World War, the Lithuanian agenda to change Holocaust memory is gaining traction.The European Union Parliament has passed a resolution that calls for the introduction of a single day that commemorates both the victims of Nazism and Stalinism as equal crimes - a policy dubbed as 'Double Genocide' which would effectively remove Holocaust Remembrance Day from the European calendar.The personal stakes for Ben-Moshe and Katz are high. In their quest, the pair risk breaking a newly passed Lithuanian law designed to prevent any questioning of the Double Genocide campaign. In doing so, the two academics put their reputations and livelihoods on the line and risk criminal prosecution in the pursuit of truth and justice. (From Australia, in English, Lithuanian and Yiddish) (Documentary) PG CC Follow the conversation on Twitter #SBSdoco |
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Broadcast 2012-09-14 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Antisemitism.
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Concentration camps -- Social aspects.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews -- Persecutions.
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World War (1939-1945)
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Germany.
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Streaming video
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Radomsky, Marc, director
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Higgins, Brendan, cast
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Katz, Dovid, contributor
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Kostaniam, Rachel, contributor
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Schulzmep, Martin, contributor
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Valentukavicius, Rimvyadas, contributor
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Weisskirchen, Gert, contributor
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Zuroff, Efraim, contributor
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