Articles written by Alex Ulam

Alex Ulam|Jul 8, 2016

VENICE, Italy (JTA)-It's been more than 50 years since the Nuremberg trials, yet proving the Holocaust actually happened remains an ongoing project. Why? For one, the Nazis covered their tracks, deliberately leaving gaps in the historical record. (In the death-camp blueprints that survive, for example, gas chambers were often labeled as morgues or "undressing rooms.") As the years pass, survivors and eyewitnesses are dying or suffering dementia. Add in social media-including the rise of the...