Holocaust survivors on Wednesday invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to tour the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and called on the leader in Tehran to invite survivors to a planned conference on the subject of the Holocaust in Iran.

Noach Flug, head of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel (COHSI) offered to host the Iranian leader as a guest of the organization in Auschwitz.

Tehran is set hold a conference on "the reasons for anti-Semitism in Europe, the Holocaust and Zionism" in December. Flug said that the presence of survivors at the event could facilitate a more serious debate on the issue.

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Flug, a survivor of Auschwitz, heads an international organization that includes Jewish and non-Jewish survivors of the Holocaust from Poland, Hungary, France, the U.K. and U.S.

The survivor leader told Ahmadinejad that ever since the Iranian leader took office, the group had been closely monitoring his statements and found him to be a "serial Holocaust denier."

Flug also mentioned Ahmadinejad's letter to German leader Angela Merkel, which claimed that the Holocaust had been fabricated by the allied forces to allow Germany to save face after the war.

"This is not the first time you have questioned the murder of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis," Flug added, "I have reached the conclusion that you lack knowledge on the matter."

Flug says he is confident that the Iranian leader's hatred toward Jews will decrease and his will for peace will grow stronger after hearing what the survivors have to say.