David Kranzler
David Kranzler (born May 19, 1930 in Frankfurt am Main ; died November 7, 2007 in Poughkeepsie , USA ) was a German-American Holocaust researcher .
Life
David Kranzler's parents had to emigrate from Germany in 1937 because of increasing anti-Semitism . Kranzler grew up in New York City . He studied literature at Brooklyn College , where he made his BA in 1953 and an MA in 1958, and received an MLS from Columbia University in 1957 . He received his PhD from Yeshiva University in 1971 .
Kranzler has taught at the Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY) since 1969 , where he became a professor in the library studies department. Kranzler retired in 1988.
Kranzler researched the various kinds of help that Jews received in the German-occupied Europe as well as their place of escape in Shanghai .
Fonts (selection)
- with Gutta Sternbuch: Memories of a Vanished World . Feldheim Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1-58330-779-6
- with Gertrude Hirschler (Ed.): Solomon Schonfeld: his page in history. Recollections of individuals saved by an extraordinary Orthodox Jewish rescue hero during the Holocaust era. Judaica Press, New York City 1982, ISBN 0910818460 .
- Holocaust hero. The untold story and vignettes of Solomon Schonfeld, an extraordinary British Orthodox rabbi who rescued 4000 Jews during the Holocaust. Jersey City: KTAV Publishing House, 2004 ISBN 0-88125-730-3
- The man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's finest hour . Foreword by Joseph I. Lieberman . Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2000
- with Dovid Landesman: Rav Breuer: His life and his legacy, A biography of Rav Dr. Joseph Breuer . Jerusalem: Feldheim, 1999
- Japanese, Nazis & Jews: The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, 1938–1945 . Preface by Abraham G. Duker. Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publ. House, 1988
- The history of the Jewish refugee community of Shanghai . 1973 New York, NY, Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva Univ., Diss., 1971
Web links
- Literature by and about David Kranzler in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about David Kranzler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Research Fellow Remembered , obituary at Yad Vashem , December 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kranzler, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American Holocaust researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2007 |
| Place of death | Poughkeepsie , USA |