Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer (Hebrew יהודה באואר; born April 6, 1926 in Prague) is an Israeli historian.

His focus is on the subject of the Holocaust. Bauer from 1996 to 2000 Head of the International Centre for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, where it is now a scientific advisor.

1998 Yehuda Bauer spoke at the memorial service for the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism in the German Bundestag.

Awards

  • Support of the Israel Prize in 1998
  • Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (2008)

Works (selection)

  • The dark side of the story. The Holocaust in historical perspective. Interpretations and re-interpretations. Jewish publisher, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-633-54170-5
  • Ransoming of Jews? Negotiations between Nazi Germany and Jewish representatives from 1933 to 1945 from the English by Klaus Binder and Jeremy Gaines. ; Jewish publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-633-54107-1
  • Rudolf Vrba and the Auschwitz Protocols. A response to John S. Conway, in: Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History, 45, 2, 1997, pp. 297-308. Online access to the Institute page
  • American Jewry and the Holocaust. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1939 - 1945 Jerusalem 1981, ISBN 0-8143-1672-7.
  • Rethinking the Holocaust. 2002, ISBN 0-300-09300-4
  • The death of the shtetl, Berlin 2013

Essays

  • "Uncle Solly " - the negotiations of Saly Mayer to the rescue of the Jews 1944/45. (pdf, 5.9 MB), in Quarterly Journal of Contemporary History, 25, 1977, p 188-219
  • The third totalitarianism, in: Time 31 July 2003, p 7
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