Shraga Elam
Shraga Elam (born October 28, 1947 in Haifa ) is an Israeli journalist and peace activist. He has lived in Zurich since 1979 , is married and has two children. His father Julius Sündermann had to flee Germany.
Life
Elam specializes in the Israel-Palestine conflict and financial affairs as well as historical research on Nazi-Zionism relations, the role of the Jewish Agency during the Nazi era, and Switzerland's role in World War II. In 2004, the five-person Australian Financial Review team , including Shraga, received the Gold Walkley Award for journalists for revelations about Swiss accounts held by Australian celebrities at an Israeli bank.
With his publications on the Swiss Police Captain Paul Grüninger , he opposed what he saw as unjustified heroization and the like. a. by the Swiss historian Stefan Keller .
Fonts
- Shraga Elam: Hitler's counterfeiters - How Jewish, American and Swiss agents helped the SS launder counterfeit money. Überreuter Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3757-2
- Together with Sebastian Speich, Fred David: Switzerland in the pillory. Banks, bosses and the Nazis . Overjoyed host. 1999 ISBN 3706403374
- Paul Grüninger - Hero or Corrupt Police Officer and Nazi Agent? : an interpretation of the Grüninger case and the mendacity of the "new" Swiss historians . Bern: Pro Libertate, 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Shraga Elam in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Shraga Elam in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Shraga Elam's blog
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elam, Shraga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli journalist and peace activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haifa |