A lack of detailed knowledge about the Holocaust is widespread among Palestinians, who view that chapter of history as a catalyst to the creation of Israel and thus a source of their suffering.
And when fame and recognition came at last, when awareness of the Holocaust became widespread, Levi remained troubled: he worried about Italian political squalor, hawkish Israeli policies, revisionist interpretations of the Holocaust, Holocaust denial, misinterpretations of his work and a trivialization of the catastrophe of European Jews.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's previous President, had been a kind of ideal adversary, attracting widespread outrage by questioning whether the Holocaust had taken place and by challenging Israel's right to exist.
The steering committee of Momentum is seeking to remove its vice-chair, Jackie Walker, after widespread criticism of comments she made about Holocaust Memorial Day.
The horrific death of six million Jews and the widespread hatred, panic and desolation of the Holocaust is a close and personal experience for many.
Jackie Walker has been removed from her position as vice chair of Momentum following widespread criticism of her comments about antisemitism and Holocaust Memorial Day.
And because there is such widespread - and apparently ceaseless - interest in Hitler, nazism and the Holocaust, publishers are keen to bring out books on these topics since they know they will sell.
And in his case, the impact of recognition would have powerful reverberations, striking a blow against Holocaust denial in a part of the world where such denial is widespread.
There is widespread agreement for instance that creationism, astrology, homeopathy, Kirlian photography, dowsing, ufology, ancient astronaut theory, Holocaust denialism, Velikovskian catastrophism, and climate change denialism are pseudosciences.
On Sunday, as Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a growing and widespread community of Jews -- linked by their gratitude toward Sugihara for saving them or family members -- remembers a man once forgotten.
