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Subject: The Nizkor Project


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Ken McVay
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Date Posted: 03:27:19 08/04/06 Fri

The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

The Nizkor Project (Hebrew: נִזְכּוֹר we will remember) is an ongoing Internet-based project run by Ken McVay which is dedicated to countering Holocaust denial. It was founded by McVay as a central Web-based archive for the large numbers of documents made publicly available by the users of the newsgroup alt.revisionism.

The site also archives numerous postings made to the newsgroup since the early 1990s. It does not archive every single posting ever made to the newsgroup; rather, the maintainers of the web site have selected various messages for display that are seen as presenting factual information about the Holocaust; or, in the case of some posters, about the authors of the messages themselves. In addition to providing an extensive archive of documents regarding the Holocaust, the Nizkor Project also seeks to expose the activities of Holocaust deniers themselves. Based on the postings to the newsgroup over the years, it has compiled extensive writings from self-proclaimed revisionists, including David Irving, Ernst Zündel, Michael Hoffman, and others. Several regular pro-revisionist posters to the newsgroups have earned reputations as persistent Internet-based kooks, and a number of their writings are also stored at the Nizkor Project.

Among the various pieces of information stored at Nizkor is a sound recording of an answering machine message allegedly made by white supremacistTom Metzger, encouraging various individuals to "take action" against "Zinkor [sic] on the Internet." According to the Ottawa Citizen in 1996, McVay has "so many on-line death threats that he refuses to give out his address."

The Nizkor Project has been widely cited among scholars and researchers as a prime source of information on various hate groups. It has been cited by USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, The Guardian, and by the American Journal of International Law, among many sources.

Ken McVay OBC (b. ca. 1940), a Canadian-American dual citizen, is one of the Internet's foremost experts on the subject of Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism) and the methods used by revisionists to promote it. He is the founder of the Nizkor Project, one of the first (and largest) World Wide Web sites dedicated to exposing the truth about Holocaust denial and the hate groups that promote it.

One of the most active participants on the newsgroup alt.revisionism, McVay describes himself as a person who found himself moved to action by the efforts of Holocaust deniers on the newsgroup to promote "factual evidence" that he found to be poorly presented and claims that were vague at best. He also opposed the idea of censoring and suppressing the deniers, as authorities and experts on hate groups often did.

A former United States Marine and retired service station manager, McVay found that he had an ample amount of spare time to dedicate to researching and transcribing historical documents, so that they could be made available online to counter the arguments of the deniers. In various interviews, he has stated his belief that of the many reasons for the deniers to oppose him and despise him, one of the most frustrating to them is the fact that their arguments have been so thoroughly debunked by a man who is not Jewish, has not professed to be a world-class scholar, and who is "only" a retired gas station manager.

McVay's efforts in combatting Holocaust denial with truth instead of censorship won him praise among many activists, and he was awarded the Order of British Columbia by the province.

McVay spends much of his time on extended speaking tours, where he discusses Holocaust denial and hate groups.

 


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