Distorted views of Holocaust on rise

(JNS) - Holocaust distortion and trivialization and banalization are on the rise around the globe, even as outright denial is relegated to the fringes of society, the head of Yad Vashem said.

The remarks come at a time when multiple European countries seek to whitewash their roles in World War II by highlighting the heroes among their countrymen while obscuring or outright denying the actions of collaborators who participated in the murder of six million Jews.

"The good news is that outright Holocaust denial is today marginal," Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, said in an interview with...