Edwin Black

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Edwin Black is an American investigative journalist who focuses on human rights issues , genocide , Zionism , the interplay of political and economic interests in the Middle East, the questionable cooperation of US companies with the German Reich and the importance of oil resources for the deals with international politics.

Many of his books are bestsellers and have been translated into several languages.

biography

Early years

Black comes from a family of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust. His mother Ethel "Edjya" Katz from Białystok reported how she narrowly escaped death by jumping out of a boxcar on the way to Treblinka with the help of her parents when she was 13 years old in August 1943. While fleeing, she was shot and buried by the Polish militia, but was rescued. Blacks father describes how he escaped his murder by fleeing into the woods while he was with others on a long march to the "execution trench", after which he joined the Betar - partisans on. Father and mother survived World War II by hiding in the Polish forests for the next two years. After the end of the war they emigrated to the USA.

Black wrote about his origins: "I was born in Chicago, raised in a Jewish neighborhood, and my parents never tried to talk to me about their experiences again."

In his book The Transfer Agreement , Black writes that he followed the faith of his parents and therefore supported the State of Israel from an early age. As a young man he spent time in a kibbutz , visited Israel several times and considered moving permanently to Israel.

Journalist career

Black began working as a professional journalist while he was in high school and continued to do so during his university studies. He wrote frequently as a freelancer for the four major Chicago daily newspapers of the time, Tribune , Daily News , Sun-Times and Chicago Today, as well as for the weekly newspapers Chicago Reader and Chicago Magazine.

In 1978, Black interviewed the American Civil Liberties Union attorney who represented members of the American Nazi Party who had marched through the predominantly Jewish suburb of Skokie with the aim of provocation . In preparation, Black became interested in the relationship between Zionists and the Hitler government. After five years of research, Black published his work The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine .

In the early 1990s, Black was the editor of OS / 2-Professional and OS / 2 Week , reporting on OS / 2 technology and its users.

Black typically worked with a large number of volunteers and professional researchers on each of his projects. Three years before the completion of IBM and the 2001 Holocaust , Black began assembling his team, which last consisted of over 100 researchers, translators and assistants. A total of 20,000 documents from 50 libraries and archives or other collections were compiled and analyzed.

In the fall of 2012 that Plan B, a film company owned by was reported Brad Pitt , IBM and the Holocaust wanted to film for the cinema. Marcus Hinchey, the co-author of the script for the film All Good Things , was approached about a possible collaboration.

Black's topics go beyond German history from 1933–1945. He also writes on the dependence of the world economy on oil, the history of Iraq and alternative energies, as well as current topics. With this in mind, he also contributes to the online magazine The Cutting Edge .

Awards

  • 1985: Carl Sandburg Award from Friends of the Chicago Public Library for The Transfer Agreement as the best non-fiction book of 1984.
  • 2003: Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) for IBM and the Holocaust.
  • 2003: Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism from ASJA for the article "Final Solutions: How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland" in The Village Voice magazine .
  • 2005: Best World Affairs Book Award of the Great Lakes chapter of the World Affairs Council for Banking on Baghdad.
  • 2007: Honorable Mention for nonfiction by ASJA for Internal Combustion.

Awards with human rights awards

  • 2016: Moral Compass Award from the Holocaust Museum and Education Center of Southwest Florida for lifetime achievement.
  • 2011: "Moral Courage Award" for War Against the Weak , presented by The Initiative for Moral Courage, San Diego State University , and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, The Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, The Anti-Defamation League, California State University , San Marcos Arts & Lectures, Institute for World Justice, Daniel Pearl Music Days, Harmony for Humanity, Armenian Law Students Association and the Thomas Jefferson School of Law .
  • 2011: Drum Major for Justice Award for War Against the Weak , given by North Carolina Central University .
  • 2010: Justice for All Award for War Against the Weak , given during a celebration of Congress by the Association of Americans with Disabilities.

Works

Books

  • The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. New York: Macmillan, 1984.
  • Format C: (novel) Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 1999.
  • IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.
  • War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
  • Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
  • Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006.
  • The Plan: How to Rescue Society When the Oil Stops - or the Day Before. (Cover Title) Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2008.
  • Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2009.
  • The Farhud: The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2010.
  • British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2011.
  • Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terror in Israel. Washington, DC: Dialog Press, 2013.

Contributions to anthologies

  • Götz Aly , Karl Heinz Roth, The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich. Introduction and translation by Edwin Black. More translations by Assenka Oksiloff. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004.
  • John Friedman (Ed.): The Secret Histories: Hidden Truths That Challenged the Past and Changed the World. New York: Picador Books, 2005.
  • Eric Katz (Ed.): Death By Design: Science, Technology, and Engineering in Nazi Germany. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.
  • Alan Dershowitz (Ed.): What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
  • Michael T. Wilson (Ed.): Democracy: Opposing Viewpoints. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press / Thomson Gale, 2006.
  • Tobias Daniel Wabbel (Ed.): The sacred nothing: God after the Holocaust. Düsseldorf, Germany: Patmos Publishers, 2007.

Film contributions

  • IBM's Role and the Holocaust. Guerrilla News Network, 2002.
  • Racism: A History. BBC , 2007.
  • Eugenika: w imie postepu, Grzegorz Braun. TVP, 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Betty Kliewer: Ethel Black Inspired a Generation with Holocaust Survival. In: The Cutting Edge News. February 15, 2005, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c d e Edwin Black: The Transfer Agreement . Ed .: Macmillan. New York 1984, ISBN 1-57129-077-X , Introduction to the 1984 Edition.
  3. ^ Edwin Black: The Transfer Agreement. presentation and discussion on the release of the 25th anniversary edition. In: C-SPAN. October 30, 2009, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Merrill Rick Chapman: In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters. Chapter 6: The Idiot Piper: OS / 2 and IBM. (No longer available online.) 2004, archived from the original on January 27, 2013 ; accessed on May 23, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Mark Smith: Windows NT 4.0: Corporate Desktop Standard. In: ITPro Today. March 31, 1996, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  6. ^ Edwin Black: IBM and the Holocaust . Ed .: Crown. New York 2001, ISBN 83-7200-759-4 , pp. 13 (English).
  7. ↑ a b Brad Pitt to Produce Movie on IBM & the Holocaust. In: The Jewish Voice. September 19, 2012, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  8. ^ Martin Barillas: Author Holds Historic Event on The Transfer Agreement. In: The Cutting Edge News. October 12, 2009, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b ASJA: ASJA Presents 2003 Writing Awards. In: American Society of Journalists and Authors. May 9, 2003, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  10. ^ Edwin Black: Awards and Nominations. In: Edwin Black's homepage. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ ASJA: ASJA Announces 2007 Award Winners. In: American Society of Journalists and Authors. April 20, 2007, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  12. ^ Edwin Black Speaking Series. In: Holocaust Museum & Education Center. 2016, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  13. ^ Holocaust museum presents best-selling author Edwin Black. In: Naples Florida Weekly. February 18, 2016, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Terrence Sterling: Investigative Author Edwin Black Headlined Conference, Received First Moral Courage Award. In: The Cutting Edge News. October 30, 2011, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  15. ^ Mariana Barillas: Noted author Edwin Black schools students on the roots of racism. (No longer available online.) In: Spero News. December 9, 2014, archived from the original on September 7, 2017 ; accessed on May 23, 2020 (English).
  16. ^ Cathy McMorris Rodgers: McMorris Rodgers Receives "Justice for All" Award From American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). In: Congress Woman Rodgers' website. US House of Representatives, July 21, 2010, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  17. ^ Paul Shore: IBM and the Holocaust  - Internet Archive . Guerrilla News Network, 2002.
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION American investigative journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century