Henry Friedlander

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Henry Friedlander , originally Heinz Egon Friedländer (born September 24, 1930 in Berlin ; † October 17, 2012 in Bangor ME) was an American historian , university professor and author of German origin. Because of his Jewish origins, Friedlander was a prisoner in several concentration camps and a survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Heinz Friedländer was born on October 24, 1941 together with his parents Dr. med. Bernhard Fritz Friedländer and Ruth Friedländer, b. Löwenthal, deported with one of the first special trains from Berlin-Grunewald station to the Litzmannstadt ghetto . From there Friedländer was transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp , the Neuengamme concentration camp , the Drütte subcamp, and finally the Wöbbelin concentration camp . His mother was murdered in a concentration camp in 1944, and he and his father survived the Holocaust.

After the liberation from National Socialism and the end of the war, Friedlander emigrated to the United States in 1947 and changed his name to Henry Friedlander. In 1952 he became an American citizen . Soon after arriving in the United States, Friedlander completed a history degree, which he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an MA in 1954 . He then researched and taught at several universities and obtained his doctorate in 1968. phil. with the dissertation : The German Revolution of 1918 . From 1970 Friedlander focused on Holocaust research and studies on the Nazi regime . From 1975 to 2001, Friedlander Professor of Jewish Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York . From 2001 to 2007 Friedlander was the chairman of an eleven-person international expert commission that voluntarily provided advice on the redesign of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp documentation center .

For his 1995 work The Origins of Nazi Genocide. From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (German version 1997 Der Weg zum NS-Genozid. From Euthanasia to the Final Solution ) he received the Bruno Brand Tolerance Book Award and the DAAD Book Prize of the German Studies Association from the Simon Wiesenthal Center . In this seminal work, Friedlander stated that "the ideology, the decision-making process, the personnel and the killing technique linked euthanasia to the ' final solution '".

Friedlander, who himself published subject-related specialist books, was co-editor of the edited volumes:

  • The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy, and Genocide , 1980
  • Yearbooks of the Simon Wiesenthal Center , 1984–1990
  • Edition of the Holocaust Archives (26 volumes), 1988–1993

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  2. ↑ http://scans.hebis.de/21/06/38/21063814_toc.pdf
  3. ↑ Andreas Engwert and Susanne Kill: Special trains in death. The deportations with the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 2009, p. 97.
  4. ↑ Henry Friedlander
  5. ↑ Klaus-Dietmar Henke: Deadly Medicine in National Socialism. From racial hygiene to mass murder , Cologne 2008, p. 340.
  6. ^ Annette Langhorst: History in progress - the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp memorial opens its new documentation center . In: Jüdische Allgemeine from November 1, 2007.
  7. ↑ http://www.mpg-saarlouis.de/?content=archiv/friedlander_20070314
  8. ↑ Quoted in: Peter Sander: Verwaltung des Krankenmordes - The Nassau District Association in National Socialism , Gießen 2003, p. 368
personal data
SURNAME Friedlander, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedländer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, university professor and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2012
Place of death Bangor (Maine)