An "insult to humanity" -- that's how a well-known Jewish group is describing a conference that got under way today in Iran involving people who question whether the Holocaust really occurred.
About 70 people have gathered in Tehran for the two-day conference to trade allegations that the death of six-million Jews at the hand of Adolf Hitler never really happened.
The charge gained prominence earlier this year when Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared the Holocaust a myth. He has used that charge to justify his position that the nation of Israel has no right to exist.
In Los Angelese, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is countering the Iranian event with a teleconference which will feature testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Spokesman Rabbi Marvin Hier says it is "an outrage" and "an insult to humanity" that any country would "stoop so low as to deny the greatest crime in the history of civilization."
He says his teleconference in Los Angeles will serve to "counter these bigots and revisionist claims" by giving first-hand accounts of what these Holocaust survivors actually experienced and witnessed and "how their lives were shattered."
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