Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli historian”. Today it says “israeli historian who specializes in the history of the holocaust”. This article was not filed under it. Today it is filed under Deniers of the Bosnian genocide.
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Gideon Greif ( Hebrew : גדעון גרייף ; born 16 March 1951) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the history of the Holocaust , especially the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp and particularly the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. He served as a visiting lecturer for Jewish and Israeli History at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin during the academic year 2011–2012. He headed a commission that issued a report in July 2021 that denied that the killing of Bosnian Muslims at and around Srebrenica in July 1995 constituted genocide. "They helped the Nazis murder their fellow Jews now these Holocaust victims' grim secret has been unveiled on film" . The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies . University of Texas at Austin .
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Gideon Greif (born 1951 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli historian .
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Gideon Greif Gideon Greif ( ; born 1951 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the History of Holocaust Period and especially with the History of the Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz, and the research on the Jewish "Sonderkommando" in Auschwitz."They helped the Nazis murder their fellow Jews now these Holocaust victims' grim secret has been unveiled on film" .
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Gideon Greif ( ; born 16 March 1951) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the history of the Holocaust , especially the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp and particularly the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz.He served as a visiting lecturer for Jewish and Israeli History at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin during the academic year 2011-2012.He was awarded the golden Medal for Merits of the Republic of Serbia . "They helped the Nazis murder their fellow Jews now these Holocaust victims' grim secret has been unveiled on film" . The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies .University of Texas at Austin .
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Israeli historian Gideon Greif ( ; born 16 March 1951) is an Israeli historian who specializes in the history of the Holocaust , especially the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp and particularly the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz. He served as a visiting lecturer for Jewish and Israeli History at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin during the academic year 2011–2012. He headed a commission that issued a controversial report in July 2021 that denied that the killing of Bosnian Muslims at and around Srebrenica in July 1995 constituted genocide. "They helped the Nazis murder their fellow Jews now these Holocaust victims' grim secret has been unveiled on film" . The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies . University of Texas at Austin .
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israeli historian who specializes in the history of the holocaust
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