Pioneering Holocaust Scholar Yehuda Bauer Dies at 98
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, announced Saturday the passing of prominent Holocaust scholar and academic adviser Professor Yehuda Bauer in Jerusalem, who died on Friday at age 98. Born in Prague in 1926, Bauer fled to Mandatory Palestine with his family during World War II, later establishing himself as a leading figure in Holocaust studies. He earned his doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and had a distinguished academic career, serving as a professor emeritus at the Avraham Herman Institute of Contemporary Judaism.
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Throughout his career, Bauer contributed significantly to Holocaust research, authoring numerous influential works and receiving prestigious awards such as the Israel Prize in 1998. His work was marked by his fluency in several languages, enabling him to access a wide range of original sources. Bauer was instrumental in the founding of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and served as an honorary chair.
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan remarked, “Prof. Yehuda Bauer not only enriched our knowledge of the Holocaust, but also deepened our understanding of this unprecedented event in Jewish and human history. … With his passing, we have lost the foremost Holocaust scholar of our time.”
