Herbert Rosenkranz

Herbert Rosenkranz ( * July 7, 1924 in Vienna, † 5 September 2003 in Jerusalem) was an Austrian -Israeli historian.

Life

Rosary grew up in Vienna's Brigittenau. His Jewish parents, Michael and Mircia, born Kesten, and the grandparents had immigrated from Eastern Europe. After the "Anschluss " of Austria in 1938, he had to emigrate with his family and lived in Riga. In the years 1941-1947 he was interned in camps in the Soviet Union. 1947-1953 studied at the Vienna University of Rosary History and English. After his dissertation on the Cházaro -Judaism, he emigrated to Israel. He first taught at high schools before he began his work in 1955 at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem as an archivist. Later he became head of the department for the investigation of Nazi crimes in the archive. 1960/61, he was an assistant for Jewish History at Tel Aviv University from 1968 to 1977, he taught as a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Herbert Rosenkranz has supported the memorial service of young Austrians in Israel from the beginning. There was also contact with the German Action Reconciliation / Service for Peace and Herbert Rosenkranz also sought dialogue with pastors in Germany. In the 1980s, Herbert Rosenkranz worked as a guest lecturer at the College of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg, and at various universities in Austria.

His brother Kurt Rosenkranz in 1993 founded the Jewish Institute for Adult Education in Vienna and his daughter Orna Langer is a music critic for Haaretz.

Works

• Persecution and self-assertion. The Jews in Austria from 1938 to 1945. Herold Verlag, Wien 1978.
• Kristallnacht. November 9, 1938 in Austria. Europe, Vienna 1968.
• The connection and the Tragedy of Austrian Jewry 1938-1945. In: The Jews of Austria ed. Josef Fraenkel. Vallentine Mitchell, London 1967.