Denial Showing and Discussion

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Movie

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Adults
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The library will show the movie DENIAL (2016), on Friday, March 11 at 2:00pm in the library's community meeting rooms.

In 1993 Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books published `Denying the Holocaust'. Two years later the English author David Irving sued her for libel on the grounds that her book had ruined his once well-regarded career as an historian by accusing him of deliberately distorting historical facts. The resulting court case puts the onus on her legal team to prove that the Holocaust did indeed take place. Based on a true story.

This program is a lead-up to the library's Americans and the Holocaust exhibition, which is a traveling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The exhibition will be at the library from Saturday, March 26 through Friday, May 6. For more information, please visit https://www.marshalltownlibrary.org/americans-and-the-holocaust-exhibition/.