Yehuda Bauer

Biography

Yehuda Bauer was a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust, born on April 6, 1926, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He went on to earn a scholastic degree and joined the Palmach, a militant Zionist organization, at the age of 16. Bauer became a professor of Holocaust studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry.