Walter Zwi Bacharach

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Walter Zwi Bacharach ( Hebrew צבי (וולטר) בכרך; born September 7, 1928 in Hanau ; died July 28, 2014 ) was a German - Israeli historian and survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

After the November pogroms in 1938, Walter Bacharach's family fled the German persecution of Jews from Hamburg to Hilversum in the Netherlands . At the beginning of 1942 she was sent to the Westerbork transit camp and from there on February 25, 1944, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto . The family was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on September 28, 1944 , where his mother Erna was gassed . His father, brother Albrecht and he most recently performed forced labor in the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp . When the camp was closed at the end of the war, his father Moritz was shot in front of his eyes on the death march .

After the liberation he emigrated to Palestine in 1946 , where he joined the religious kibbutz movement HaDati and went to the kibbutz Be'erot Jitzchak . Since this was destroyed during the War of Independence , the kibbutz moved to another location in the Negev desert . With his wife Chana, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor whom he married in 1949, he left the kibbutz in 1953 and moved to Tel Aviv . You have three children. Bacharach became a teacher and later studied history.

Bacharach researched and taught as a historian of modern history at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan on the history of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust . He worked at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem . From 2003 to 2007 he was director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem .

Bacharach died in July 2014. He left behind his wife, three children and seven grandchildren.

Fonts (selection)

  • Antishemiut modernit , Tel-Aviv, Miśrad ha-biṭakhon, 1979 (he)
  • Antisemitism, Holocaust, and the Holy See: An Appraisal of Recent Books About the Vatican and the Holocaust , in Yad Vashem Studies XXX (en)
  • Anti-Jewish Prejudices in German-Catholic Sermons . Translated from the Hebrew by Chaya Galai. Lewiston, NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1993
  • as editor: These are my last words ...: Letters from the Shoah . Translated from the Hebrew by Maurice Tszorf. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006.
  • "Looking death in the eye". Article in honor of Monika Richarz , in: Marion Kaplan, Beate Meyer (Ed.): Jüdische Welten. Jews in Germany from the 18th Century to the Present , Göttingen, Wallstein 2005, pp. 295–303

literature

  • Dietrich Fichtner (Seligenstadt): First discrimination - then hundreds of murders , Offenbach-Post , 12./13. September 1992
  • Walter Zwi Bacharach: Gd guided me. Emigration - Deportation - Survival . In: Beate Meyer, Institute for the History of German Jews : The persecution and murder of Hamburg's Jews 1933-1945: History, testimony, memory Wallstein, Göttingen 2006 ISBN 978-3-8353-0137-5 , p. 156f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Zwi Bacharach at yadvashem.org
  2. ↑ Erna Bertha Bacharach, b. Strauss (1899–1944), Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny 1933–1945 , Volume 1, p. 116
  3. ↑ a b c d Walter Zwi Bacharach , Interview with Yad Vashem , 2008 (en)
  4. ↑ Moritz Bacharach (1888–1945), לזכר - קורבנות מלחמה הולנדים, רשות קורבנות המלחמה של הולנד (באדיבות אגודת ידידי יד ושם בהולנד). There is no further information on the place of death in Hennersdorf (CZ).
  5. ↑ Rafael Seligmann : Born by Hitler. The German Jews in Israel (II) , Der Spiegel , October 31, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Bacharach, Walter Zwi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacharach, Zwi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2014