More than 200 guests join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s presentation of “Battleground for Truth: Confronting Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial” at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 5, 2015. The panelists included from left are moderator Dan Schnur, the Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California; and Museum speakers Aleisa Fishman, Historian, Initiative on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism, and Mina Abdelmalak, Arabic Audience Outreach Specialist, Initiative on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism. A conversation was held on the rising threat of antisemitism in Europe, the Arab world, and on U.S. college campuses. Guests learned how the Museum uses its powerful collections, educational resources and its network of scholars to combat distortion and denial of the Holocaust and offers direct access to evidence of Nazi crimes and atrocities. The Museum is in the midst of a $540 million national campaign Never Again: What You Do Matters, to make critical investments to keep Holocaust memory alive as a relevant force for change.
