Iranian students unveil book mocking Holocaust victims

An Iranian woman looks at a new book mocking the Holocaust in Tehran on September 26, 2008. Photo: AFP

A group of Islamist students unveiled the book today in an annual parade marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day to show solidarity with the Palestinians. Featuring dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary, the book "Holocaust" was published by student members of the Basij militia. The book comes two years after an Iranian newspaper commissioned a competition of Holocaust-themed cartoons.


The book's cover depicted a Jew with a hooked nose dressed in traditional clothes drawing the outlines of dead bodies on the ground.Inside pages have pictures of bearded Jews shown leaving and re-entering a gas chamber with a counter that reads 5,999,999.Another picture shows a hospital patient covered in an Israeli flag and on life support, breathing Zyklon-B, the poisonous gas used in the death camps.

A patient covered in an Israeli flag and on life support breathing Zyklon-B, the poisonous gas used in the extermination chambers.

The commentary inside the book includes anti-Semitic stereotypes and revisionist arguments, casting doubt on the massacre of Jews and mocking Holocaust survivors who claimed reparations after World War II.

One comment in a question-and-answer format reads:

"How did the Germans emit gas into chambers while there were no holes on the ceiling?" Answer: "Shut up, you criminal anti-Semite. How dare you ask this question?"

Nazi atrocities on Jewish women

Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus(Carpatho-Ukraine) who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.


A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution. (1942).

Jewish women stripping before their deaths.,USSR, 1941

Ukrainian Jews who were forced to undress before they were massacred by Einsatzgruppe detachments.

Members of the 21st Latvian Police Battalion assemble a group of Jewish women for execution.

German police and Ukrainian collaborators in civilian clothes look on as Jewish women are forced to undress before their execution.


Naked Jewish women being driven towards Gas Chamber V-Auschwitz ll Birkenau.

Members of a Lithuanian militia unit force a group of Jewish women from Panevezys to undress before their execution in the Pajuoste Forest.

Jewish women from the Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine, which held roughly 1,700 Jews. Some are holding infants as they are forced to wait in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.

Jewish women and children are ordered to undress prior to their execution.

A Latvian policeman leads a group of Jewish women to the execution site in Latvia.

A group of naked Jewish women and girls walk to the execution site on the beach near Liepaja, Latvia.

A group of Jewish women stand at the edge of an open mass grave facing the sea before their murder.

A Jewish woman pleads for her life at a mass-murder scene.jpg