Shimon Redlich

Shimon Redlich (born 1935) is an Israeli historian who survived the Holocaust. Redlich is a professor emeritus at Ben Gurion University. He is an expert in the modern history of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Life

Shimon Redlich was born in Lviv in 1935. He and his family moved to Brzezany, located in what is now Ukraine, the same year. In 1943, his father was killed during a round-up, and the family went into hiding with the help of a Polish and a Ukrainian families. Redlich is one of the child survivors starring in the 1948 film Unzere kinder.

In 1950, he emigrated to Israel. He earned a BA at Hebrew University, an MA from Harvard University, and a PhD from New York University. In 1972, he began teaching at Ben Gurion University, and retired as full professor in 2003.

Works

• Redlich, Shimon, ed. (1995). War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-3-7186-5739-1.
• Redlich, Shimon (2002). Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34074-0.
• Redlich, Shimon (2011). Life in transit: Jews in postwar Lodz, 1945-1950. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-965-536-085-1.
• Redlich, Shimon (2018). A New Life in Israel: 1950-1954. Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1-61811-715-1.

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• Saul Friedländer
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• Izabella Tabarovsky

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