Holocaust Denial

Since I was little the idea of discriminating people due to their physical appearances or different beliefs sounded irrational and senseless. Later, in history class, I learned about the Holocaust, according to the Oxford dictionary: the massive “murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941-45”. This idea of persecuting Jews just for thinking differently was the perfect proof of the craziness I once thought discrimination implied. I founded insane that someone could kill 6 million Jews due to their religion. Trying to learn more about the Holocaust, I found my self in front of a website full of nonsense arguments denying the Holocaust, the title of the page “Holocaust Revisionism”. According to the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust revisionism is an “attempt to negate the established facts of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry.” Even more insane than the Holocaust itself is trying to deny the suffering and death of millions of Jews. This idea of denying the Holocaust started as a propaganda movement in Canada, United States and Western Europe, in the bureaucratic language of the Nazi Policy. In 1979, a man called Wills Carto founded the institute for historical review (IHR), an organization that allowed people to question certain historical events like the Holocaust. According to the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, this institute bases its ideas from writers and professors that nave no credentials. So how can people believe and follow Holocaust revisionism knowing that the sources are not reliable? I continued my research and got to the question; can a historical event as important as the Holocaust be denied? If we start denying history then there will be a point where we will not know who and what to believe, so we have to look at the evidences and think rationally. Considering evidence such as testimonies, historical facts and awareness campaigns done by professional organizations, the Holocaust is a historical event that cannot be denied or forgotten.