The Nizkor (Hebrew: we will remember) Project is an ongoing Internet-based project run by Ken McVay which is dedicated to countering Holocaust revisionism. 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 Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Ken McVay is one of the Internets foremost experts on the subject of Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism) and the methods used by revisionists to promote it. ... Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ... alt. ...

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. Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II, starting in 1941 and continuing through 1945. ...

In addition to providing an extensive archive of documents regarding the Holocaust, the Nizkor Project also seeks to expose the activities of Holocaust revisionists 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. David John Cawdell Irving (born March 24, 1938) is a self-taught historian who, from the late-1960s to the mid-1980s, was a leading British author on World War II. Author of controversial works such as Hitler’s War and The Destruction of Dresden, Irving is also one of... Ernst Zündel is an outspoken Holocaust denier. ... A Kook may refer to a Crank (person) in the United States. ...

Some pro-revisionist Internet authors prominently featured in the Nizkor archives, such as Matt Giwer, have publicly denied the authenticity of the writings hosted by the Nizkor archives. However, other newsgroup archives (such as Google) have been used to authenticate these messages. Google, Inc. ...

Numerous pro-revisionist Web sites and spokespersons have made repeated accusations against McVay, challenging his neutrality and making a large number of personal attacks against him. The Nizkor web site has been accused by revisionists and Neo-Nazi Web sites as being funded by Israel and other so-called "Zionist" sources, though McVay consistently denies these charges. He states that the Nizkor Project is funded strictly through donations from the general public, as well as his own personal finances. The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...

Among the various pieces of information stored at Nizkor is a sound recording of an answering machine message allegedly made by white supremacist Tom Metzger, encouraging various individuals to "take action" against "Zinkor [sic] on the Internet." An answering machine, also known as an answer machine (especially in UK and British commonwealth countries), ansafone (tradename [1]), ansaphone (tradename [2]), answerphone or telephone answering device (TAD), is a device for automatically answering telephone calls and recording messages left by callers. ... White supremacy is the variety of white nationalism that believes the white race should rule over other races. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

The Nizkor Project has been widely cited among scholars and researchers as a prime source of information on various hate groups. A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates hate, hostility or violence towards a group of people or some organization upon spurious grounds, despite a wider consensus that these people are not necessarily better or worse than any others. ...

External links

• Nizkor Project Home Page (http://www.nizkor.org/)
• The McVay Files - Part 1 of 5 (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3fbdd933.47967339%40news5.uncensored-news.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain) (critical articles written with a pro-revisionist POV)
• The McVay Files - Part 2 of 5 (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3fb98162.124994646%40AMERICAN-TAVISH-CENTRAL.NET&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain)
• The McVay Files - Part 4 of 5 (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3fbdd94d.47993191%40news5.uncensored-news.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain)
• The McVay Files - Part 5 of 5 (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3fbdd955.48000890%40news5.uncensored-news.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain)