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Professor Yehuda Bauer was a distinguished scholar of Holocaust history. He served as Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also the Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem and Honorary Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. As the founding editor of numerous leading journals, including Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Dr. Bauer authored many acclaimed works, such as Rethinking the Holocaust, Out of the Ashes, and Death of the Shtetl.

In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize, the country’s highest civilian honor, for his contributions to Holocaust studies. Dr. Bauer also served as a trusted advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

One of the foremost authorities on the Holocaust, Dr. Bauer was the USC Shoah Foundation’s 2012 Yom HaShoah Scholar-in-Residence and consulted on numerous Institute projects for over two decades. In 2015, he gave his testimony, sharing rich details of his childhood and the early influences that led him to pursue a career in history.

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1926, Dr. Bauer and his family emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1939. He attended school in Haifa before studying at Cardiff University in Wales, though he interrupted his studies to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1960, he received his PhD in history from Hebrew University in Israel.

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