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Deborah E. Lipstadt

Biography

Deborah E. Lipstadt

Deborah Esther Lipstadt is an American historian, best known as author of the books DENYING THE HOLOCAUST (1993) and THE EICHMANN TRIAL (2011). Lipstadt was a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1994 she was appointed by Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, serving two terms. She is currently the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

Books by Deborah E. Lipstadt

History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
by Deborah E. Lipstadt - Nonfiction

In her acclaimed 1993 book DENYING THE HOLOCAUST, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom --- where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself.