David Banker
David Bankier (born January 19, 1947 in Zeckendorf , † February 26, 2010 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was an Israeli historian .
Life
Bankier was born in the German kibbutz Licht des Lebens , which was located in Zeckendorf, now part of the town of Scheßlitz in the Bamberg district . His parents were Eastern European Holocaust survivors who were preparing to emigrate to Palestine . His family emigrated to Argentina in 1952 .
After the Six Day War , Bankier settled in Israel. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later taught there as a professor of Holocaust studies . He was also head of the research institute at the Yad Vashem Memorial from 2000 .
A central issue for bankers was the extent to which the German population was informed about the mass murders of the Jews and what attitude they had towards the Jews. Bankier did pioneering work with the indexing and evaluation of partly unpublished sources from memoirs , diaries and letters from contemporary witnesses . In his book Public Opinion in the Hitler State , Bankier explains the indifference of the population towards the persecution not as indifference or tacit consent, but - in contrast to Ian Kershaw and Otto Dov Kulka - with the unwillingness of the people to admit their participation in the injustice. You have persuaded yourself, as allegedly ignorant, to be immune to retribution and revenge.
Fonts (selection)
- Public opinion in the Hitler state. The "Final Solution" and the Germans . Berlin-Verl. Spitz, 1995. ISBN 3-87061-478-1
- (Ed.) Together with Herbert Obenaus and Daniel Fraenkel: Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 1–2. Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-753-5
- (Ed.) Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust. Collected Essays from the Colloquium at THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER , New York (Enigma books) / Jerusalem (Yad Vashem) 2004. ISBN 1-929631-60-X
- (Ed.): Questions about the Holocaust: Interviews with prominent researchers and thinkers . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006
- Introduction , from the English by Irmgard Hölscher, pp. 7-19
- Why the Germans? , Interview, from the English by Alma Lessing, pp. 35–55
Web links
- Literature by and about David Bankier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ethan Bronner: David Bankier, Scholar of Holocaust, Dies at 63 , obituary, The New York Times , February 28, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Professor David Bankier: Leading scholar on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust In The Independent , accessed on February 26, 2020.
- ↑ Götz Aly: Memory of a friend. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 2, 2010, accessed July 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Haaretz.com from March 3, 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ On the importance of bankers within this research discipline, see Peter Longerich: 'We didn't know about it' - The Germans and the persecution of the Jews 1933-1945. Munich 2006, ISBN 3-88680-843-2 , p. 15f
- ↑ David Bankier: Public opinion in the Hitler state. The final solution and the Germans. A correction. Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87061-478-1 , p. 189
- ↑ Peter Longerich: 'We didn't know anything about that' , p. 16
- ↑ The interviews conducted by students in Yad Vashem with Holocaust researchers and writers such as Aharon Appelfeld , Yehuda Bauer , Jacques Derrida , Saul Friedländer , Hans Mommsen and others. a. were run in the mid-1990s.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Banker, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zeckendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 2010 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem , Israel |