In fact, he said, the term “genocide” could accurately be applied to the 2 million to 3 million Poles murdered and millions more enslaved by the Nazis. It is that Wiesenthal’s arbitrarily chosen tally of non-Jewish victims diminishes the centrality to the Nazi ideology of systematically wiping any trace of the Jewish people from the planet. The problem, according to Bauer, who has debunked the number repeatedly in his writings over the decades, is not that non-Jews were not victims they were. When I explain that this number is simply inaccurate, in fact made up, they become even more convinced of my ethnocentrism and inability to feel the pain of anyone but my own people.” Strangers have taken me to task in angry letters for focusing ‘only’ on Jewish deaths and ignoring the five million others. “When I tell the organizers that they are engaged in historical revisionism, their reactions range from skepticism to outrage. “I have been to many Yom Hashoah observances - including those sponsored by synagogues and Jewish communities - where eleven candles were lit,” she wrote in an article in the Jewish Review of Books in which she lacerated Wiesenthal’s ethical standards. Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta, wrote in 2011 how the number continues to dog her efforts to teach about the Holocaust.
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