Keneally scoffs at deniers Keneally scoffs at deniers During his lecture at Birmingham-Southern, Thomas Keneally spoke of the necessity to remember the Holocaust. But Huntsville's Robert Countess tries to use Keneally's book in his efforts to deny the Holocaust.
Historical fiction takes actual events and provides more of a narrative.
Rather that coming from the imagination of an author, it is an author giving life to an event that actually happened. Things were not made up. Keneally said arguments of the deniers are about as credible as claims that the Battle of Gettysburg was really between quarreling boy scouts from South Carolina and New Hampshire, and that a series of governments conspired to hide the truth by erecting monuments commemorating a different story. Keneally wryly suggested that the deniers spend time trying to uncover that nonsensical scenario.