Holocaust Encyclopedia
The Holocaust Encyclopedia is an online encyclopedia run by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). It has over 950 English articles on all aspects of the Holocaust, hundreds of which have also been translated into 19 languages, such as Arabic, Farsi, Russian and Spanish.[1]
The Holocaust Encyclopedia boasts millions of annual visitors worldwide. The articles on the platform are occasionally updated, with peer-reviewed input from new historical studies and civil rights groups, conferring it much higher credibility and reliability than the regular English Wikipedia marred by cases of historical revisionism.[2][3]
The articles are mostly written in simple English to foster the understanding of the Holocaust by high school students and non-native speakers of English. The platform is funded by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, and the German Federal Ministry of Finance.[4]
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change- ↑ "About This Site – Holocaust Encyclopedia". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
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- Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira (February 9, 2023). "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". The Journal of Holocaust Research: 133–190. doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939. ISSN 2578-5648. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
[...] a group of committed Wikipedia editors have been promoting a skewed version of history [...] Wikipedia's articles on the Holocaust in Poland [...] insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists to betray Poles (Żydokomuna or Judeo–Bolshevism), blame Jews for their own persecution, and inflate Jewish collaboration with the Nazis [...]
- "The shocking truth about Wikipedia's Holocaust disinformation". The Forward. June 14, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
To our dismay, we found dozens of examples of Holocaust distortion [...] advanced a Polish nationalist narrative [...] People who read these pages learned about [...] Jews supporting the communists to betray Poles.
- "Exposing the Holocaust Lies on the Dark Side of Wikipedia". Chapman University News. November 17, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
- "Wikipedia and Judaism: How Holocaust Denial Became Embedded in the World's Go-To Source of (Mis)Information". World Religion News. October 14, 2024. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
- Grabowski, Jan; Klein, Shira (February 9, 2023). "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust". The Journal of Holocaust Research: 133–190. doi:10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939. ISSN 2578-5648. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
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- "ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. June 18, 2024. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- "Wikipedia now labels the top Jewish civil rights group as an unreliable source". CNN. June 20, 2024. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
- ↑ "The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students – Holocaust Encyclopedia". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 21, 2024.