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MARK ZUCKERBERG, REMOVE HOLOCAUST DENIAL FROM FACEBOOK

Update: Claims Conference Statement Re: Facebook Policy Change: Holocaust Denial and Distortion

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS MAKE PERSONAL APPEALS TO FACEBOOK CEO TO REMOVE HATEFUL HOLOCAUST DENIAL POSTS

FIRST-EVER SURVIVOR-DRIVEN DIGITAL CAMPAIGN #NoDenyingIt

The Claims Conference announces an online campaign to ensure the voices of Holocaust survivors are heard by Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Holocaust survivors around the world have a message for Mark Zuckerberg and that is: “Holocaust denial posts on Facebook must be removed!” As one survivor put it, “They are calling us liars. We aren’t liars. We are witnesses.”

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Appeals from Holocaust Survivors to Remove Holocaust Denial on Facebook

Eva Schloss - UK

Eva Geiringer Schloss is an Austrian-English Holocaust survivor memoirist and stepdaughter of Otto Frank, the father of Margot and diarist Anne Frank. She speaks widely of her family's experiences during the Holocaust and is a participant in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive project to record video answers to be used in educational tools.

Roman Kent - USA

Roman Kent is Chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and a member of the Claims Conference negotiating delegation. He produced the award-winning documentary Children of the Holocaust, partially filmed in Auschwitz, which was honored at the 1980 New York International Film Festival. Among a long list of other honors, in 2000 Mr. Kent was awarded the Elie Wiesel Holocaust Remembrance Award and the Schulweis Award from the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. In 2005 the Commander's Cross of Merit, the highest civilian award given by the Polish government, was bestowed on him.

Serge Klarsfeld - France

Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate are French activists, journalists, and renowned Nazi hunters whose work apprehending war criminals, seeking justice for victims and survivors of war crimes, and establishing the record of the Holocaust have brought them international recognition. Serge, born in 1935 in Romania, and Beate, born in 1939 in Germany, assisted in the capture of numerous Nazi perpetrators, including SS official Kurt Lischka, Gestapo captain Klaus Barbie, and Paris police chief Maurice Papon. The recipients of France’s Legion of Honour and Germany’s Federal Order of Merit, both nations’ highest honors for civilians, they were named UNESCO ambassadors of genocide prevention by the United Nations in 2015.

Eva Diamant Szepesi - Germany

Eva is an author and speaker. In 2011 she published her autobiography A Girl Alone on the Run. In April 2017 Szepesi received the city of Frankfurt's Main Badge of Honor.

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